Colossal hand and torch Liberty"" – Historic Reproduction
(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 Colossal hand and torch Liberty"". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Colossal hand and torch Liberty""
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Few objects at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition drew crowds like the colossal hand and torch of Liberty, a fragment of the statue that Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was designing for New York Harbor. The copper arm and flame were as much a fundraising device as a display, meant to build support for paying for the statue's pedestal. Issued by the Centennial Photographic Company, this stereograph was made to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave viewers a sense of depth and bulk that a flat image could not convey.
| Created / published | Philada. : Centennial Photographic Co., c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1870-1880.Stereographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | G13878 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2025. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Centennial Exhibition--(1876 :--Philadelphia, Pa.) Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1870-1880. Centennial celebrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,354 × 2,693 px · prints to 15 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219227 |
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