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[Statue of Liberty: Metal flame of torch and arm] – Antique Print

[Statue of Liberty: Metal flame of torch and arm], [1938?] — historic photograph
[Statue of Liberty: Metal flame of torch and arm], [1938?]. Historic photograph from the Statue of Liberty collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few parts of the statue have changed as much as its torch, and this photograph isolates the metal flame and the arm that holds it aloft. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's original torch arm was shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, years before the full statue was assembled in New York Harbor, and the flame was later replaced during restoration work in the 1980s. Jeannette Griffith's album of studies, dated here to about 1938 on an unverified caption card, records the statue's surfaces in close view, showing how the copper skin and its details look up close.

Created / published[1938?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesIllus. in: album, Jeannette Griffith, Photographic Studies of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, 1938?, pl. III,8. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan942 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159262

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