2. Inside the Assembly of the Statue of Liberty
Rare Historical Photos/Smithsonian Mag/NPS.gov
This rare historical photo is from Paris in 1884. The finishing touches were being placed on the Statue of Liberty before it was shipped to America. The people seen in this photo were responsible for the construction of the statue later dubbed the “gateway to America.” Assembly alone took 3 years but the statue itself had been underway for much longer than that. The idea was originally proposed by Edouard De Laboulaye in 1865. After a trip to the United States in 1871, he finished the design. By 1876, construction had began and by 1881 crews just like this one were assembling it’s pieces together in Paris.
