Statue Of Liberty, 1884
by Photo Researchers
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Statue Of Liberty, 1884
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Photo Researchers
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Photograph - Photograph
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Lithograph entitled "The Great Bartholdi Statue. Liberty enlightening the world. The gift of France to the American People." The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
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May 30th, 2013
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