[The Statue of Liberty: Hand and torch of the statue] – Historic Reproduction
![[The Statue of Liberty: Hand and torch of the statue], [1944?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2a/2ad15bef3e73-L.webp)
(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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Statue of Liberty: Hand and torch of the statue]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Here the camera isolates the copper hand and torch that rise above the rest of the statue, the part many visitors recognize first. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the figure, and the torch-bearing arm was shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, a decade before the full statue was dedicated on Liberty Island in 1886. The date of 1944? comes from an unverified caption card, so the exact year of the photograph is uncertain.
| Created / published | [1944?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY(N.Y.); Statue of Liberty; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,803 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140904 |
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