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Chapter 2
A Gift Is Created................................................ 10
Chapter 3
Putting Up the Statue........................................ 20
Chapter 4
The Next 100 Years............................................ 30
Chapter 5
Visiting the Statue Today.................................. 38
Timeline.............................................................. 44
Glossary.............................................................. 45
To Learn More..................................................... 46
Index.................................................................. 47
A
huge statue of a woman stands in
New York Harbor. She has many
names. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi,
who designed the statue, called her Liberty En-
lightening the World. She is often called Lady
Liberty. Most people know her as the Statue
of Liberty.
From its beginning, the statue was a
symbol. It honored ideas: friendship, free-
dom, and government by the people (de-
mocracy). Today, it is still a symbol of these
ideas. It is also the symbol of a country—the
United States of America—and of the fact that
tens of millions of people have come to the
United States from all over the world to seek a
better life.
The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island.
This island is in the upper bay of New York
Harbor. It is 1½ miles (2½ kilometers) from
Manhattan, which is part of New York City.
It is less than ½ mile (¾ kilometer) from
Standing on an island and facing toward the sea, the Statue of Liberty welcomes ships
entering New York Harbor.
Declaration of Independence.
That was the document, ap-
proved on July 4, 1776, in which
the American colonies declared
their independence from Great
Britain. The statue honored
the long friendship between
the United States and France.
After the Declaration, France
helped the colonists defeat
Great Britain and win their in-
dependence in the American
Revolution. The statue was also
meant to remind people of the
freedom Americans fought for
during the Revolution. To build
the statue, Bartholdi and Eiffel
used modern and older materi-
For immigrants arriving in their new country,
als and methods. The result was
the statue was a symbol of hope. a beautiful work of art.
Columbia
Colonists in America used Columbia as a symbol. She is a goddess in a flowing
gown. Her name comes from Columbus. During the Revolution, she represented
the ideas that the American colonists were fighting for. Later, she was used in
political cartoons. She was used in World War I posters, but the Statue of Liberty
became the more popular symbol. Today, Columbia is seldom used.
The statue was dedicated in 1886 (ten years later than originally
planned). Millions of people who passed her after that were immigrants.
An immigrant is a person who moves to a new country to live. In the late
1800s and the early 1900s, more than 12 million immigrants arrived in
New York by ship to start a new life in the United States. Most of them
had come from Europe and were very poor. For these people, the statue
was a symbol of hope—hope for a better life. Many Americans today have
grandparents, great-grandparents, or others in their family who passed the
statue when they first came to the United States.
About 30 years after the statue arrived, the United States entered World
War I in 1917 and sent soldiers to fight in Europe. The U.S. government
started to use the Statue of Liberty on posters. Like Uncle Sam and Colum-
bia, it was a symbol that stood for American freedom. All over the country,
people saw its picture. Soldiers returning from Europe by ship cheered
when they saw this symbol of home.
One hundred years after it opened, the Statue of Liberty was very spe-
cial to Americans. When it needed to be repaired, many people sent mon-
ey to help pay for fixing it. Then, there was a huge 100th birthday party
for the statue in 1986.
At the time the statue was placed on what is now called Liberty Island, New York Harbor
was the busiest port in the United States. Nearby Ellis Island soon became the first stop
for millions of immigrants coming to the United States.
D
uring the American Revolution,
France sent soldiers and ships to help
the American colonies defeat Great
Britain. France and Great Britain were en-
emies at that time—each of them wanted to
be the most powerful country in Europe. But
the king of France did not decide to send help
right away. Even before he did, other people in
France decided to help the colonists because
they believed in the ideas of freedom and de-
mocracy in the Declaration of Independence.
One of these people was the Marquis de
Lafayette. He left France and came to America
in 1777, and for the next two years he fought
in the colonists’ Continental Army. In 1779,
Lafayette returned to France, and he helped
convince the French government to send help
to the colonists. The next year, he came back
to America to continue fighting in the Ameri-
can Revolution. Americans were grateful to
Lafayette, and he became a hero.
10
A revolution in France started in 1789, and soon after that the king of
France was overthrown and killed. In the decades after the French Revolu-
tion, France had several governments. The French disagreed on what their
government should be. Some people wanted it to again be a monarchy,
led by a king. Others wanted a republic.
Edouard de Laboulaye was a French historian and expert on the Ameri-
can government. He wanted France’s government to be more like that of
the United States. In 1865, he talked with many people about having a
French republic. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi agreed with him. Bartholdi
was a sculptor. A sculptor is someone who creates art by making shapes,
such as statues.
Bartholdi and Laboulaye talked about creating a statue. It would be a
birthday gift from France to the United States for the 100th anniversary of
the Declaration of Independence. It would honor the friendship between
the two countries. Also, they hoped that the idea of the statue would get
more people in France to support a French republic.
11
Laboulaye felt very strongly about the statue. Bartholdi wrote that he
remembered Laboulaye saying:
“If a monument were to be built in America as a memorial to their
independence, I should think it very natural if it were built by united
efforts, if it were a common work of both nations.”
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
(1834–1904)
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi was born in the Al-
sace region of France. In 1870–1871, he fought in
the Franco-Prussian War. This was a war between
France and Prussia (an area that is now part of
Germany). After France was defeated in the war, it
was forced to give Alsace to Prussia. This angered
Bartholdi because the people in Alsace were not
allowed to choose what country they wanted their
region to be part of. This made Bartholdi value
liberty even more than before. Bartholdi was a
sculptor who liked to design large works of art.
In 1869, he designed a huge statue of a woman. It was to be built in Egypt. It
would also be a lighthouse. But it was never built. Besides the Statue of Liberty,
there are other works by Bartholdi in the United States, including a statue of
Lafayette in New York City and a large fountain in Washington, D.C.
12
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At a large workshop in
Paris, workers made
plaster models that were
used to create the final
copper statue.
14
Making Models
When Bartholdi returned from his trip to the United States, he began work-
ing on the statue. He made detailed drawings. He used some ideas from his
earlier project, which never got made, for a huge statue in Egypt. Bartholdi
said he thought of his mother’s face as he designed the Statue of Liberty’s
face. He probably thought about how other artists had also shown liberty
as a woman. He decided that his liberty would be peaceful. She would not
have weapons.
First Bartholdi made a clay model of the statue that was 4 feet (1¼ me-
ters) high. He made changes to it. Then he took it to the Paris workshop
of a company that made artworks out of metal. This company had built
other large statues.
Under Bartholdi’s direction, workers at the company made a plaster
model that was 9 feet (2¾ meters) high. With exact measurements, they
made a third plaster model that was 36 feet (11 meters) high. The work-
ers then made thousands of measurements to make the pieces of a final
plaster model that, if put together, would be the same size as the statue:
151 feet (46 meters) tall. (This last model was not put together, though. It
would have been too tall to fit in the workshop.)
A Copper Skin
Following Bartholdi’s directions, workers then built a wooden form around
the outside of each piece of the final plaster model. They used small pieces
of wood placed very close together. When they took off each form, the
inside of the form was the same as the outside of that piece of the plaster
model. Next, they pounded sheets of thin copper onto the inside of each
wooden form. This was an old way of molding copper.
15
The wooden form used to create the statue’s left hand was so large that workers
could stand in it.
Bartholdi chose copper because it was thin but strong. Each of the
300 sheets of copper the workers used was about as thick as two pennies.
These sheets were cut into shapes and then pounded into the wooden
forms. Later, all of these molded copper pieces could be put together to
make the copper “skin” that is the outside of the statue.
A Strong Frame
Bartholdi knew that the copper skin would need a strong frame inside it.
He asked Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel to design it. Eiffel used modern meth-
ods to create a frame with three parts. Inside the center of the statue was
a strong iron tower that would connect to the statue’s base. Then, metal
16
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
(1832–1923)
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel was known for build-
ing large and strong railroad bridges using
the newest methods, or technology. He used
these same new ideas for the Statue of Lib-
erty’s frame. He is most famous for designing
the Eiffel Tower (right). This steel and iron
tower—984 feet (300 meters) tall—was built
for the 1889 world’s fair in Paris that celebrated
the 100th anniversary of the start of the French
Revolution. Until 1930, the Eiffel Tower was
the tallest human-made structure in the world.
When it was built, the Eiffel Tower was not
meant to be permanent. But many people loved
the tower’s graceful beauty and the great views
of Paris from the top. It is still in Paris today
and is the most famous symbol of that city.
beams went out from that tower to the copper skin. These beams were
attached to metal bars that went along the inside of the copper skin. This
allowed each piece of the skin to be attached to a beam. With this kind
of frame, the statue is able to adjust to the weather. It moves in the wind.
When the weather is hot, the copper and metal bars expand, or get bigger.
They contract, or get smaller, when the weather is cold.
Running Late
The whole statue was not ready in time for America’s 100th birthday
celebration in 1876. Instead, its arm and torch were sent to the United
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