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Proposes idea of robed woman holding a torch in a hand. Idea unsuccessful
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Bartholdi starts creating sketches of the "Liberty" monument
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promoting idea for a Franco-American monument on Bedoe's Island on the of New York Harbor. Tours country.
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Funds him with 600,000 thousand francs
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Asks for permisson for Bedloe Island to be the spot where the monument stands
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Hand and torch are shipped with him
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Hnad and torch are completed. Sent to US for display in Philadelphia
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Bedloe Island to be the designated place where the monument goes
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Displayed for the first time in the Paris Universal Exposition
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Ferdinand de Lesseps chairs the Union
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Formally handed over to the US
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Atlantic Ocean
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Words from Emma Lazarus’ poem "The New
Colossus"