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how was the statue of liberty brought to the us On June 17, 1885, a French steamer arrived in New York with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. who designed it? Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi what does it symbolise? Liberty has this designer done any other work? Yes - Statues at Clermont-Ferrand; he sculpted a bronze memorial of Jean Rapp who is this person of the bronze memorial? A French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. what was the origin of the liberty statue? The idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. was it ever renovated? Yes - in 1984 how were funds raised for its construction? Large number of money-raising events, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work; Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the "New York World" announced a drive to raise $100,000.
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Statue of Liberty [SEP] Fundraising
Fundraising in the US for the pedestal had begun in 1882. The committee organized a large number of money-raising events. As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in eastern Europe. These refugees were forced to live in conditions that the wealthy Lazarus had never experienced. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue.