2007-01-04 13:11:32 · 5 answers · asked by jennifer . 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Event at which a gift from France to the US was conceived: Dinner Party
Date: 1865
Location: Glatigny, France (near Versailles)
Host: Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye (1811-83)
Honored Guest: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
(As accounted by Bartholdi in 1885 - ref: Trachtenberg)
Date Construction of the Statue began in France: 1875
Title of Statue: "Liberty Enlightening the World"
Sculptor: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Bartholdi's Military Rank: Quartermaster to a force of five thousand soldiers
Bartholdi's Commander at Autun during Franco-Prussian War in 1870:
Giuseppe Garibaldi (FS1986)
Structural Engineer: Gustave Eiffel
Method of Fabrication: Repousse Process
Statue completed in Paris: June 1884
Statue presented to America by the people of France: July 4, 1884
Statue dismantled and shipped to US: Early 1885
1885 Transport Ship: French frigate "Isere"
Number of individual pieces shipped to US: 350
Number of crates required: 214
Location of Statue: Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island and Fort Wood (fortress for protection
of New York Harbor 1811)
Reaction in Paris to Liberty leaving for New York:
On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.
Architect of the pedestal: Richard Morris Hunt (in 1877)
Champion Fundraiser for the Pedestal: Joseph Pulitzer,
Hungarian immigrant, Publisher of the New York World.
Treaurer of The American Committee for the Statue of Liberty:
Henry A. Spaulding
http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm
2007-01-04 13:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by ????? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Statue of Liberty National Monument officially celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28, 1986. The people of France gave the Statue to the people of the United States over one hundred years ago in recognition of the friendship established during the American Revolution. Over the years, the Statue of Liberty has grown to include freedom and democracy as well as this international friendship.
For more go to : http://www.nps.gov/stli/
2007-01-04 13:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know the France gave to the USA.
2007-01-04 13:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by Kai 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
2007-01-04 13:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by Who Wants A Lobotomy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's kinda green, and not as big as you think it is. pretty, though.
2007-01-04 13:14:53 · answer #5 · answered by leticiapeter 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋