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Section Looking West – Antique Print

Section Looking West — historic image
Section Looking West. Historic image from the Statue of Liberty collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This historic image of Section Looking West brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Section Looking West

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Unlike the many exterior views of the statue on this board, this one is a section, a drawing that slices the monument along a plane to expose what lies inside. The title's "looking west" fixes the direction of the cut, so the viewer sees the structure as if standing on one side of the cross-section. Such drawings were central to the statue's engineering. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the copper figure, and Gustave Eiffel's firm built the iron framework that carries its weight and lets the copper skin move with wind and temperature. The dedication took place in 1886, and drawings like this one show how much of the statue's strength is hidden from visitors.

Original scan9,632 × 14,450 px · prints to 32 × 48 in at 300 dpi
Reference00002a snapshotsofthepast.com

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