Most people know the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of freedom, but not everyone knows just how much work went into building her. Yes, she was a gift from France, but getting her from concept to ...

it was the small donations of hundreds of thousands of working people and children on both sides of the Atlantic that made the Statue of Liberty a reality,” the NPS says. French sculptor ...

Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi, in collaboration with Gustave Eiffel (who was responsible for the steel framework), this towering monument to liberty was a gift from France on the ...