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Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue given to the United States by France in 1886, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper statue, dedicated on October 28 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugene Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the Repoussé technique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide, and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the United States for millions of American immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe.
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The Statue of Liberty is located in New York Harbor, about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) southwest of the southern tip of Manhattan. The island was officially called "Bedloe's Island" until it was renamed in 1956, but was popularly called "Liberty Island" much earlier;, "Bedloes Island (sometimes called Liberty Island from the Bartholdi statue on it of Liberty Enlightening the World)..." O. Henry refers to it by that name in a 1911 story."The Lady Higher Up," from: p. 214; and ; p. "Three hundred and sixty-five feet above the heated asphalt the tiptoeing symbolic deity on Manhattan pointed her vacillating arrow straight, for the time, in the direction of her exalted sister on Liberty Island." (The story is a fanciful dialog between the statue of Diana then at Madison Square Garden and the Statue of Liberty.
Liberty holds a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left. The tablet shows the inscription JULY IV MDCCLXXVI—July 4 1776, the date of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
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Statue of Liberty National Monument - Located in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States. Officially named Liberty Enlightening the World, it is one of the most universal symbols of political freedom and democracy.
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