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Create statue was commissioned French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. To think it as a gift to the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. According to one version, we even had the French Bartholdi naturschitsa: beautiful, recently widowed Isabella Boyer, the wife of Isaac Singer, creator and entrepreneur in the field of sewing mashin. Po mutual agreement was America to build the pedestal, and France - to create the statue and set it in the United States. However, the lack of money was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. In France, charitable donations, along with a variety of entertainment activities and allow a lottery to collect 2.25 million francs. In the United States to raise funds held theatrical performances, art exhibitions, auctions and boxing boi. Mesto for the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, approved by Act of Congress in 1877, was selected by General William Shermanom. Sbor funds for the pedestal was moving medlennoStroitelstvo ended April 22 1886. The massive stonework pedestal built two square steel bridge beams; they connect steel tie beams that go up there to become part eyfelevskogo (frame resembling the Eiffel Tower), the frame of the statue itself. Thus, statue and pedestal are one.

The statue was completed by the French in July 1884 and taken to New York Harbor June 17, 1885 on board the French frigate "Isere". To transport the statue was dismantled 350 units and packed in 214 yaschikov. Torzhestvennoe opening of the Statue of Liberty, which was addressed by US President Grover Cleveland, held on October 28 1886 in the presence of thousands of spectators. As the French gift for the centennial of the American Revolution, he was late for ten years.