[Statue of Liberty: Interior study of metal braces, forged to follow the lines of the draperies] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Statue of Liberty: Interior study of metal braces, forged to follow the lines of the draperies], [1938?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/44/44d4c9f97b93-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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Interior braces, forged to follow the folds of the statue's draperies, are the subject of this study, one of several plates in a photographic album compiled by Jeannette Griffith. Bartholdi's copper figure was held up by an iron framework engineered by Gustave Eiffel's firm, and the thin copper skin was fastened to that skeleton with straps and brackets, so the hidden ironwork had to be shaped to the sheets it supported. Photographing these inner details offers a rare look at a structure most visitors never see. The date of about 1938 is approximate, since the caption card is unverified.
| Created / published | [1938?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Illus. in: album, Jeannette Griffith, Photographic Studies of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, 1938?, pl. IV,2. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 960 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159264 |
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