The Statue of Liberty arrived in America on this day over 125 years ago, so its our image of the week.
The Statue of Liberty is today one of the great symbols of New York city. But it wasn’t always so. The statue was famously built in France before being transported to America. And it arrived today (June 17) in 1885. The statue was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, and was a gift from France to America that was produced having been a vision for many years.
Our image of the week is a lithograph of the statue from 1885, one year before the statue was actually stood upon the plinth on which it was to be placed. In the image, the statue is lit up in gold against the background and in large letters underneath it says:
The great Bartholdi statue,
Liberty enlightening the world,
The gift of France to the American people.
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Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Statue_of_Liberty,_1885#mediaviewer/File:Currier_and_Ives_Liberty2.jpg
