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[Statue of Liberty: View from walk at top of the pedestal from bottom of statue] – Vintage Wall Art

[Statue of Liberty: View from walk at top of the pedestal from bottom of statue], [1938?] — historic photograph
[Statue of Liberty: View from walk at top of the pedestal from bottom of statue], [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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From a walkway near the top of the pedestal, this view turns the camera toward the statue itself, a vantage few visitors would have had. It is one plate in Jeannette Griffith's album *Photographic Studies of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty*, which the record dates to about 1938, though that date comes from an unverified caption card. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated in 1886, was a gift from France, and its copper skin rests on an iron framework engineered by Gustave Eiffel's firm. Studies like this one show the monument's enormous scale from angles most tourists never reached.

Created / published[1938?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesIllus. in: album, Jeannette Griffith, Photographic Studies of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, 1938?, pl. II,5. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,072 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159259

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