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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, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal ...
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located in the downtown area of New Castle, Pennsylvania. [66] A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located near the Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. [66] A bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty resides in Neenah, Wisconsin. It was cast in California by the Great American Bronze Works.
The New Colossus at Wikisource. " The New Colossus " is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ). [ 2] In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( / bɑːrˈtɒldi, - ˈθɒl -/ bar-T (H)OL-dee, [ 1 ][ 2 ]French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; 2 April 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. [ 3 ]
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States National Monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. [5] It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at ...
Castle Clinton (also known as Fort Clinton and Castle Garden) is a restored circular sandstone fort within Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City. Built from 1808 to 1811, it was the first American immigration station, predating Ellis Island. More than 7.5 million people arrived in the United States at Fort Clinton ...
1984 marked the end of the Bell System.The New York City headquarters building was sold to Sony in 1992 and the company relocated its headquarters to 32 Avenue of the Americas (which had no room for the statue) and many operating functions across the Hudson River and about forty miles west to a 140-acre (0.57 km 2) wooded campus purchased nine years previously in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
The Statue of Freedom is a colossal bronze figure standing 19⁄ ft (5.9 m) tall and weighing approximately 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg). Her crest peaks at 288 feet (88 m) above the east front plaza of the U.S. Capitol. [ 3] She is an allegorical figure whose right hand holds the hilt of a sheathed sword, while a laurel wreath of victory and the ...