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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Statue of Liberty' has mentioned 'Statue' in the following places:
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| Statue of LibertyLiberty Enlightening the WorldLocationLiberty IslandManhattan, New York City,New York,[1] U.S.Coordinates40xc2xb041xe2x80xb221xe2x80xb3N 74xc2xb02xe2x80xb240xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf40.68917xc2xb0N 74.04444xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 40.68917; -74.04444Coordinates: 40xc2xb041xe2x80xb221xe2x80xb3N 74xc2xb02xe2x80xb240xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf40.68917xc2xb0N 74.04444xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 40.68917; -74.04444Height Height of copper statue (to torch): 151xc2xa0feet 1xc2xa0inch (46 meters) From ground level to torch: 305xc2xa0feet 1xc2xa0inch (93 meters) DedicatedOctober 28, 1886Restored1938, 1984xe2x80x931986, 2011xe2x80x932012SculptorFrxc3xa9dxc3xa9ric Auguste BartholdiVisitors3.2xc2xa0millionxc2xa0(in 2009)[2]Governing bodyU.S. | WIKI |
| The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frxc3xa9dxc3xa9ric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. | WIKI |
| The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. | WIKI |
| The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. | WIKI |
| [8] After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. | WIKI |
| The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. provide the site and build the pedestal. | WIKI |
| Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions. | WIKI |
| The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. | WIKI |
| The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, and is a major tourist attraction. | WIKI |
| "[9] The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870. | WIKI |
| This statue is believed to have been over 100 feet (30xc2xa0m) high, and it similarly stood at a harbor entrance and carried a light to guide ships. | WIKI |
| [13] Both the khedive and Lesseps declined the proposed statue from Bartholdi, citing the expensive cost. | WIKI |
| Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island (now named Liberty Island) as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it. | WIKI |
| "[17] As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue. | WIKI |
| [20] The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, U.S. artist John LaFarge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U.S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio. | WIKI |
| The statue's design evokes iconography evident in ancient history including the Egyptian goddess Isis, the ancient Greek deity of the same name, the Roman Columbia and the Christian iconography of the Virgin Mary. | WIKI |
| [23] Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold. | WIKI |
| Crawford's statue was designed in the early 1850s. | WIKI |
| [33] He designed the figure with a strong, uncomplicated silhouette, which would be set off well by its dramatic harbor placement and allow passengers on vessels entering New York Bay to experience a changing perspective on the statue as they proceeded toward Manhattan. | WIKI |
| The erected statue does stride over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. | WIKI |
| [33] As chief engineer,[33] Viollet-le-Duc designed a brick pier within the statue, to which the skin would be anchored. | WIKI |
| [33][38] An advantage of this choice was that the entire statue would be light for its volume, as the copper need be only 0.094 inches (2.4xc2xa0mm) thick. | WIKI |
| Bartholdi had decided on a height of just over 151 feet (46xc2xa0m) for the statue, double that of Italy's Sancarlone and the German statue of Arminius, both made with the same method. | WIKI |
| With the announcement, the statue was given a name, Liberty Enlightening the World. | WIKI |
| [41] The French would finance the statue; Americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal. | WIKI |
| [41] French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life. | WIKI |
| The piece was titled La Libertxc3xa9 xc3xa9clairant le monde, the French version of the statue's announced name. | WIKI |
| [44] According to Cara Sutherland in her book on the statue for the Museum of the City of New York, 200,000 pounds (91,000xc2xa0kg) was needed to build the statue, and the French copper industrialist Eugxc3xa8ne Secrxc3xa9tan donated 128,000 pounds (58,000xc2xa0kg) of copper. | WIKI |
| Although plans for the statue had not been finalized, Bartholdi moved forward with fabrication of the right arm, bearing the torch, and the head. | WIKI |
| [46] In May 1876, Bartholdi traveled to the United States as a member of a French delegation to the Centennial Exhibition,[47] and arranged for a huge painting of the statue to be shown in New York as part of the Centennial festivities. | WIKI |
| [50] After the exhibition closed, the arm was transported to New York, where it remained on display in Madison Square Park for several years before it was returned to France to join the rest of the statue. | WIKI |
| [51] On March 3, 1877, on his final full day in office, President Grant signed a joint resolution that authorized the President to accept the statue when it was presented by France and to select a site for it. | WIKI |
| The statue's head on exhibit at the Paris World's Fair, 1878 | WIKI |
| Fundraising continued, with models of the statue put on sale. | WIKI |
| [55] The French government authorized a lottery; among the prizes were valuable silver plate and a terracotta model of the statue. | WIKI |
| A secondary skeleton was attached to the center pylon, then, to enable the statue to move slightly in the winds of New York Harbor and as the metal expanded on hot summer days, he loosely connected the support structure to the skin using flat iron bars[33] which culminated in a mesh of metal straps, known as "saddles", that were riveted to the skin, providing firm support. | WIKI |
| Eiffel's design made the statue one of the earliest examples of curtain wall construction, in which the exterior of the structure is not load bearing, but is instead supported by an interior framework. | WIKI |
| The change in structural material from masonry to iron allowed Bartholdi to change his plans for the statue's assembly. | WIKI |
| He had originally expected to assemble the skin on-site as the masonry pier was built; instead, he decided to build the statue in France and have it disassembled and transported to the United States for reassembly in place on Bedloe's Island. | WIKI |
| In a symbolic act, the first rivet placed into the skin, fixing a copper plate onto the statue's big toe, was driven by United States Ambassador to France Levi P. | WIKI |
| [68] By 1882, the statue was complete up to the waist, an event Barthodi celebrated by inviting reporters to lunch on a platform built within the statue. | WIKI |
| The completed statue was formally presented to Ambassador Morton at a ceremony in Paris on July 4, 1884, and de Lesseps announced that the French government had agreed to pay for its transport to New York. | WIKI |
| [70] The statue remained intact in Paris pending sufficient progress on the pedestal; by January 1885, this had occurred and the statue was disassembled and crated for its ocean voyage. | WIKI |
| The Liberty statue project was not the only such undertaking that had difficulty raising money: construction of the obelisk later known as the Washington Monument sometimes stalled for years; it would ultimately take over three-and-a-half decades to complete. | WIKI |
| [72] There was criticism both of Bartholdi's statue and of the fact that the gift required Americans to foot the bill for the pedestal. | WIKI |
| In the years following the Civil War, most Americans preferred realistic artworks depicting heroes and events from the nation's history, rather than allegorical works like the Liberty statue. | WIKI |
| [73] Harper's Weekly declared its wish that "M. Bartholdi and our French cousins had 'gone the whole figure' while they were about it, and given us statue and pedestal at once. | WIKI |
| Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 1885, showing (clockwise from left) woodcuts of the completed statue in Paris, Bartholdi, and the statue's interior structure | WIKI |
| The foundation of Bartholdi's statue was to be laid inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811. | WIKI |
| The statue's foundation and pedestal were aligned so that it would face southeast, greeting ships entering the harbor from the Atlantic Ocean. | WIKI |
| [33] The large mass is fragmented with architectural detail, in order to focus attention on the statue. | WIKI |
| Bartholdi placed an observation platform near the top of the pedestal, above which the statue itself rises. | WIKI |
| In completing his engineering for the statue's frame, Gixc3xa6ver worked from drawings and sketches produced by Gustave Eiffel. | WIKI |
| She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. | WIKI |
| She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. | WIKI |
| Grover Cleveland, the governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide $50,000 for the statue project in 1884. | WIKI |
| With the project in jeopardy, groups from other American cities, including Boston and Philadelphia, offered to pay the full cost of erecting the statue in return for relocating it. | WIKI |
| On June 17, 1885, the French steamer Isxc3xa8rexc2xa0[fr] arrived in New York with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. | WIKI |
| New Yorkers displayed their new-found enthusiasm for the statue. | WIKI |
| [96][97] After five months of daily calls to donate to the statue fund, on August 11, 1885, the World announced that $102,000 had been raised from 120,000xc2xa0donors, and that 80 percent of the total had been received in sums of less than one dollar. | WIKI |
| Immediately thereafter, reassembly of the statue began. | WIKI |
| [101] Bartholdi had planned to put floodlights on the torch's balcony to illuminate it; a week before the dedication, the Army Corps of Engineers vetoed the proposal, fearing that ships' pilots passing the statue would be blinded. | WIKI |
| [104] General Charles Stone claimed on the day of dedication that no man had died during the construction of the statue. | WIKI |
| A French flag draped across the statue's face was to be lowered to unveil the statue at the close of Evarts's speech, but Bartholdi mistook a pause as the conclusion and let the flag fall prematurely. | WIKI |
| [107] President Cleveland spoke next, stating that the statue's "stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression until Liberty enlightens the world". | WIKI |
| Shortly after the dedication, The Cleveland Gazette, an African American newspaper, suggested that the statue's torch not be lit until the United States became a free nation "in reality": | WIKI |
| Shove the Bartholdi statue, torch and all, into the ocean until the "liberty" of this country is such as to make it possible for an inoffensive and industrious colored man to earn a respectable living for himself and family, without being ku-kluxed, perhaps murdered, his daughter and wife outraged, and his property destroyed. | WIKI |
| When the torch was illuminated on the evening of the statue's dedication, it produced only a faint gleam, barely visible from Manhattan. | WIKI |
| "[103] Bartholdi suggested gilding the statue to increase its ability to reflect light, but this proved too expensive. | WIKI |
| The United States Lighthouse Board took over the Statue of Liberty in 1887 and pledged to install equipment to enhance the torch's effect; in spite of its efforts, the statue remained virtually invisible at night. | WIKI |
| He did successfully lobby for improved lighting within the statue, allowing visitors to better appreciate Eiffel's design. | WIKI |
| [103] In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt, once a member of the New York committee, ordered the statue's transfer to the War Department, as it had proved useless as a lighthouse. | WIKI |
| Wars and other upheavals in Europe prompted large-scale emigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century; many entered through New York and saw the statue not as a symbol of enlightenment, as Bartholdi had intended, but as a sign of welcome to their new home. | WIKI |
| This view was consistent with Lazarus's vision in her sonnetxe2x80x94she described the statue as "Mother of Exiles"xe2x80x94but her work had become obscure. | WIKI |
| In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a plaque that was affixed to the base of the statue. | WIKI |
| And always that statue was on my mind. | WIKI |
| The statue rapidly became a landmark. | WIKI |
| As early as 1902 it was mentioned in the press; by 1906 it had entirely covered the statue. | WIKI |
| [117] Believing that the patina was evidence of corrosion, Congress authorized US$62,800 (equivalent to $1,809,000 in 2020) for various repairs, and to paint the statue both inside and out. | WIKI |
| [119] The Army Corps of Engineers studied the patina for any ill effects to the statue and concluded that it protected the skin, "softened the outlines of the Statue and made it beautiful. | WIKI |
| "[120] The statue was painted only on the inside. | WIKI |
| Bedloe's Island in 1927, showing the statue and army buildings. | WIKI |
| The eleven-pointed walls of Fort Wood, which still form the statue's base, are visible. | WIKI |
| The statue sustained minor damage, mostly to the torch-bearing right arm, and was closed for ten days. | WIKI |
| The cost to repair the statue and buildings on the island was about $100,000 (equivalent to about $2,380,000 in 2020). | WIKI |
| That same year, Ralph Pulitzer, who had succeeded his father Joseph as publisher of the World, began a drive to raise $30,000 (equivalent to $713,000 in 2020) for an exterior lighting system to illuminate the statue at night. | WIKI |
| On December 2, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson pressed the telegraph key that turned on the lights, successfully illuminating the statue. | WIKI |
| After the United States entered World War I in 1917, images of the statue were heavily used in both recruitment posters and the Liberty bond drives that urged American citizens to support the war financially. | WIKI |
| This impressed upon the public the war's stated purposexe2x80x94to secure libertyxe2x80x94and served as a reminder that embattled France had given the United States the statue. | WIKI |
| In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a national monument. | WIKI |
| In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the statue to be transferred to the National Park Service (NPS). | WIKI |
| [124] The Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished most of the old buildings, regraded and reseeded the eastern end of the island, and built granite steps for a new public entrance to the statue from its rear. | WIKI |
| The WPA also carried out restoration work within the statue, temporarily removing the rays from the statue's halo so their rusted supports could be replaced. | WIKI |
| Rusted cast-iron steps in the pedestal were replaced with new ones made of reinforced concrete;[125] the upper parts of the stairways within the statue were replaced, as well. | WIKI |
| [126] The statue was closed to the public from May until December 1938. | WIKI |
| During World War II, the statue remained open to visitors, although it was not illuminated at night due to wartime blackouts. | WIKI |
| New, powerful lighting was installed in 1944xe2x80x931945, and beginning on V-E Day, the statue was once again illuminated after sunset. | WIKI |
| The lighting was for only a few hours each evening, and it was not until 1957 that the statue was illuminated every night, all night. | WIKI |
| [127] In 1946, the interior of the statue within reach of visitors was coated with a special plastic so that graffiti could be washed away. | WIKI |
| [113] In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon. | WIKI |
| In 1970, Ivy Bottini led a demonstration at the statue where she and others from the National Organization for Women's New York chapter draped an enormous banner over a railing which read "WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE! | WIKI |
| Beginning December 26, 1971, 15 anti-Vietnam War veterans occupied the statue, flying a US flag upside down from her crown. | WIKI |
| [131] The statue was also several times taken over briefly by demonstrators publicizing causes such as Puerto Rican independence, opposition to abortion, and opposition to US intervention in Grenada. | WIKI |
| The statue was the focal point for Operation Sail, a regatta of tall ships from all over the world that entered New York Harbor on July 4, 1976, and sailed around Liberty Island. | WIKI |
| [133] The day concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks near the statue. | WIKI |
| July 4, 1986: First Lady Nancy Reagan (in red) reopens the statue to the public. | WIKI |
| The statue was examined in great detail by French and American engineers as part of the planning for its centennial in 1986. | WIKI |
| [135] In 1982, it was announced that the statue was in need of considerable restoration. | WIKI |
| In addition, the head had been installed 2 feet (0.61xc2xa0m) off center, and one of the rays was wearing a hole in the right arm when the statue moved in the wind. | WIKI |
| A 1983 promotion advertised that for each purchase made with an American Express card, the company would contribute one cent to the renovation of the statue. | WIKI |
| In 1984, the statue was closed to the public for the duration of the renovation. | WIKI |
| Workers erected the world's largest free-standing scaffold,[33] which obscured the statue from view. | WIKI |
| Workers within the statue had to wear protective gear, dubbed "Moon suits", with self-contained breathing circuits. | WIKI |
| [145] The replacement skin was taken from a copper rooftop at Bell Labs, which had a patina that closely resembled the statue's; in exchange, the laboratory was provided some of the old copper skin for testing. | WIKI |
| Low-carbon corrosion-resistant stainless steel bars that now hold the staples next to the skin are made of Ferralium, an alloy that bends slightly and returns to its original shape as the statue moves. | WIKI |
| [150] The lighting was again replacedxe2x80x94night-time illumination subsequently came from metal-halide lamps that send beams of light to particular parts of the pedestal or statue, showing off various details. | WIKI |
| [153] An emergency elevator was installed within the statue, reaching up to the level of the shoulder. | WIKI |
| July 3xe2x80x936, 1986, was designated "Liberty Weekend", marking the centennial of the statue and its reopening. | WIKI |
| July 4 saw a reprise of Operation Sail,[155] and the statue was reopened to the public on July 5. | WIKI |
| Immediately following the September 11 attacks, the statue and Liberty Island were closed to the public. | WIKI |
| The island reopened at the end of 2001, while the pedestal and statue remained off-limits. | WIKI |
| The pedestal reopened in August 2004,[156] but the National Park Service announced that visitors could not safely be given access to the statue due to the difficulty of evacuation in an emergency. | WIKI |
| [157] New York Congressman Anthony Weiner made the statue's reopening a personal crusade. | WIKI |
| [158] On May 17, 2009, President Barack Obama's Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced that as a "special gift" to America, the statue would be reopened to the public as of July 4, but that only a limited number of people would be permitted to ascend to the crown each day. | WIKI |
| The statue, including the pedestal and base, closed on October 29, 2011, for installation of new elevators and staircases and to bring other facilities, such as restrooms, up to code. | WIKI |
| The statue was reopened on October 28, 2012,[1][159][160] but then closed again a day later in advance of Hurricane Sandy. | WIKI |
| [161] Although the storm did not harm the statue, it destroyed some of the infrastructure on both Liberty and Ellis Islands, including the dock used by the ferries that ran to Liberty and Ellis Islands. | WIKI |
| [162] Since Liberty Island had no electricity, a generator was installed to power temporary floodlights to illuminate the statue at night. | WIKI |
| [163] The statue and Liberty Island reopened to the public on July 4, 2013. | WIKI |
| [166] In addition, Liberty Island was briefly closed on July 4, 2018, after a woman protesting against American immigration policy climbed onto the statue. | WIKI |
| The statue is situated in Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island south of Ellis Island, which together comprise the Statue of Liberty National Monument. | WIKI |
| A concession was granted in 2007 to Statue Cruises to operate the transportation and ticketing facilities, replacing Circle Line, which had operated the service since 1953. | WIKI |
| Visitors intending to enter the statue's base and pedestal must obtain a complimentary museum/pedestal ticket along with their ferry ticket. | WIKI |
| [180][184] Those wishing to climb the staircase within the statue to the crown purchase a special ticket, which may be reserved up to a year in advance. | WIKI |
| A plaque on the copper just under the figure in front declares that it is a colossal statue representing Liberty, designed by Bartholdi and built by the Paris firm of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie (Cie is the French abbreviation analogous to Co.). | WIKI |
| [186] A presentation tablet, also bearing Bartholdi's name, declares the statue is a gift from the people of the Republic of France that honors "the Alliance of the two Nations in achieving the Independence of the United States of America and attests their abiding friendship. | WIKI |
| [189][190] The following year, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were jointly added to the National Register of Historic Places,[191] and the statue individually in 2017. | WIKI |
| The UNESCO "Statement of Significance" describes the statue as a "masterpiece of the human spirit" that "endures as a highly potent symbolxe2x80x94inspiring contemplation, debate and protestxe2x80x94of ideals such as liberty, peace, human rights, abolition of slavery, democracy and opportunity. | WIKI |
| Feature[77] Imperial Metric Height of copper statue 151xc2xa0ft 1 in 46 m Foundation of pedestal (ground level) to tip of torch 305xc2xa0ft 1 in 93 m Heel to top of head 111xc2xa0ft 1 in 34 m Height of hand 16xc2xa0ft 5 in 5 m Index finger 8xc2xa0ft 1 in 2.44 m Circumference at second joint 3xc2xa0ft 6 in 1.07 m Head from chin to cranium 17xc2xa0ft 3 in 5.26 m Head thickness from ear to ear 10xc2xa0ft 0 in 3.05 m Distance across the eye 2xc2xa0ft 6 in 0.76 m Length of nose 4xc2xa0ft 6 in 1.48 m Right arm length 42xc2xa0ft 0 in 12.8 m Right arm greatest thickness 12xc2xa0ft 0 in 3.66 m Thickness of waist 35xc2xa0ft 0 in 10.67 m Width of mouth 3xc2xa0ft 0 in 0.91 m Tablet, length 23xc2xa0ft 7 in 7.19 m Tablet, width 13xc2xa0ft 7 in 4.14 m Tablet, thickness 2xc2xa0ft 0 in 0.61 m Height of pedestal 89xc2xa0ft 0 in 27.13 m Height of foundation 65xc2xa0ft 0 in 19.81 m Weight of copper used in statue 60,000 pounds 27.22xc2xa0tonnes Weight of steel used in statue 250,000 pounds 113.4xc2xa0tonnes Total weight of statue 450,000 pounds 204.1xc2xa0tonnes Thickness of copper sheeting 3/32 of an inch 2.4xc2xa0mm | WIKI |
| [193] A smaller version of the statue, one-fourth the height of the original, was given by the American community in Paris to that city. | WIKI |
| [194] In a patriotic tribute, the Boy Scouts of America, as part of their Strengthen the Arm of Liberty campaign in 1949xe2x80x931952, donated about two hundred replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper and 100 inches (2.5xc2xa0m) in height, to states and municipalities across the United States. | WIKI |
| [195] Though not a true replica, the statue known as the Goddess of Democracy temporarily erected during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was similarly inspired by French democratic traditionsxe2x80x94the sculptors took care to avoid a direct imitation of the Statue of Liberty. | WIKI |
| [196] Among other recreations of New York City structures, a replica of the statue is part of the exterior of the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. | WIKI |
| [198] An image of the statue was chosen for the American Eagle platinum bullion coins in 1997, and it was placed on the reverse, or tails, side of the Presidential Dollar series of circulating coins. | WIKI |
| [31] Two images of the statue's torch appear on the current ten-dollar bill. | WIKI |
| [199] The statue's intended photographic depiction on a 2010 forever stamp proved instead to be of the replica at the Las Vegas casino. | WIKI |
| Depictions of the statue have been used by many regional institutions. | WIKI |
| Between 1986[201] and 2000,[202] New York State issued license plates with an outline of the statue. | WIKI |
| [201][202] The Women's National Basketball Association's New York Liberty use both the statue's name and its image in their logo, in which the torch's flame doubles as a basketball. | WIKI |
| [203] The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League depicted the statue's head on their third jersey, beginning in 1997. | WIKI |
| [204] The National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1996 Men's Basketball Final Four, played at New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex, featured the statue in its logo. | WIKI |
| [205] The Libertarian Party of the United States uses the statue in its emblem. | WIKI |
| The statue is a frequent subject in popular culture. | WIKI |
| [208] The statue makes one of its most famous cinematic appearances in the 1968 picture Planet of the Apes, in which it is seen half-buried in sand. | WIKI |
| [211] In Jack Finney's time-travel novel Time and Again, the right arm of the statue, on display in the early 1880s in Madison Square Park, plays a crucial role. | WIKI |
| Atop its pedestal (designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt), the Statue has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States since it was dedicated in 1886. | UNESCO |
| The Statue is a masterpiece of colossal statuary, which found renewed expression in the 19th century, after the tradition of those of antiquity, but with intimations of Art Nouveau. | UNESCO |
| xc3x89douard Renxc3xa9 de Laboulaye collaborated with Bartholdi for the concept of the Statue to embody international friendship, peace, and progress, and specifically the historical alliance between France and the United States. | UNESCO |
| Highly potent symbolic elements of the design include the United States Declaration of Independence, which the Statue holds in her left hand, as well as the broken shackles from which she steps. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): This colossal statue is a masterpiece of the human spirit. | UNESCO |
| It was financed by international subscription in recognition of the establishment of the principles of freedom and democracy by the United States of Americaxe2x80x99s Declaration of Independence, which the Statue holds in her left hand. | UNESCO |
| The Statue also soon became and has endured as a symbol of the migration of people from many countries into the United States in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. | UNESCO |
| The Statue has been maintained through its lifetime with no major change. | UNESCO |
| The Statuexe2x80x99s design and purpose have been preserved from the time of its construction. | UNESCO |
| The Statue was designated as a National Monument in 1924 (the National Monument additionally includes Liberty Island [1937] and Ellis Island [1965]), and is administered by the National Park Service. | UNESCO |
| The Statue receives a large number of visitors, and has substantial professional staff and facilities that include a Visitor Information Center, an exhibit on the Statuexe2x80x99s history, and the nearby Ellis Island Immigration Museum. | UNESCO |