Statue of Liberty under construction **Pic Heavy**

[cynatnite]

These photographs, recently put on display at the New York Public Library, document the statue's construction during her years in Paris between 1877 and 1885.

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http://news.yahoo.com/photos/statue-of-liberty-under-construction-slideshow/liberty-photo-1340384838.html#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fstatue-of-liberty-under-construction-slideshow%252Fliberty-photo-1340384843.html

[spanone]

1. k&r

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Is it any wonder the Right Wing is crazy?

They look at the Statue Of Liberty as "America" and it even brings a tear to their eye but they hate everything it represents, including the country it came from and the city it's associated with.

Hell, Let's all take a moment to remember when the French said they wouldn't join in the Iraq Invasion and the Right Wing was saying we should not only do the "freedom fries" nonsense but we should go over there and dig up our war dead and rebury them here.

Meanwhile, Liberals LOVE New York.

Where else can you picket an embassy on your lunch hour?

[MADem]

3. Where else can you picket an embassy on your lunch hour?

DC, baby! Embassy Row!!

Those are consulates in NYC!!!

[Laelth]

4. Great photos. Thanks for posting.

I remain amazed by the utter uniqueness of this gift by the people of France to the People of the United States. I am aware of no other historical precedent like it--one nation giving a national landmark to another. It was probably a jab at the U.K., but France reminds us, every day, through the gift it gave, what is best about us--not the unparalleled mercantile spirit we inherited from the U.K., but the ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity that we inherited from French thinkers during the enlightenment.

Giving us that statue was the ultimate "symbolic gesture."

-Laelth