The Statue of Liberty is gift from France commemorating the 100th year of our Countries Independence. It represents a woman in a stola, wearing a crown and sandals, crushing a chain with a torch in her right hand and a tablet with MDCCLXXVI which is 1776 written in Roman Numerals. At the time it was given and erected it was designed to greet people as they came to this country from Europe and into Ellis Island. This was of course before the Jet Age when people travelled mainly by ship. Frederic Bartholdi designed the statue.
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