STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out

STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
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The circa-1886 Statue of Liberty's angular steel skeleton meets its elegantly undulating copper toga in this 1984 picture.

The statue's exterior is made of copper about as thick as two pennies stacked together, according Park Service spokesperson Mindi Rambo. The copper sheets—about 300 total—are held together with iron bands.

The skeleton's engineer, Gustave Eiffel, would in 1889 shock—and later seduce—Paris when his structural handiwork stood "naked" in the form of the Eiffel Tower.
— Photograph courtesy Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress
 

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