Meanwhile, another female avatar for the nation was capturing the imaginations of millions of new immigrants from Italy, Poland and Russia: the Statue of Liberty, dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

After adding specifications, he shared the idea with Burnham, who balked at the slender rods that would carry people to a height taller than the recently opened Statue of Liberty. “Too fragile ...

30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.) ...

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