She was shipped across the Atlantic in 350 pieces.

On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. The colossal copper figure was a gift from the people of France, designed by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with an internal iron framework engineered by Gustave Eiffel.

Americans paid for the pedestal, helped by a newspaper fundraising campaign led by Joseph Pulitzer.

For generations of immigrants arriving by sea, she was the first glimpse of a new life. Today she remains one of the most recognized symbols of freedom on Earth.

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