Statue Of Liberty

Statue Of Liberty “depicting a women holding a torch in her raised right hand and a tablet in her left hand” is the symbol of the friendship between the France and United States Of America and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. Statue Of Liberty is erected atop on a small island in upper New York Bay and dedicated by the then President Grover Cleveland in 1886. In 1924 it was declared as a national monument.

The Statue Of Liberty was a combined effort between France and United State, Americans were responsible to build the pedestal and the French people were responsible for building the statue and its assembly here in the United State. The French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi created the statue and Gustave Eiffel – the man behind the Eiffel Tower, designed the statue` s steel framework. Initially statue was built and assembled in France, then disassembled and shipped to Ney York in 1885.

Statue Of Liberty is about 93 meters tall (including the height of pedestal) and around 31 tons of copper, 125 tons of iron was used. Statue Of Liberty sway up to 3 inches and the torch up to 6 inches in wind. Due to lack of fund, various fund raising activities had been done in France and United States.