Photograph by EJdwin Levick 



THE STATUE OE LIBERTY IN NEW YORK HARBOR 



This glorious symbol of freedom, towering 300 feet above the waters of New York 

 harbor, was purchased by popular subscription and presented to the United States by the 

 people of France in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of 

 Independence and in token of the undying bond of sympathy and friendship that exists 

 between the citizens of the two great republics — a love which Lafayette and Rochambeau 

 brought into being more than a century ago. The statue itself is 151 feet in height from 

 base to torch, and is the work of the eminent French sculptor, Bartholdi. 



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