![]() ![]() She calls it a 19th-century crowdfunding operation.ĮSTIGNARD: This is very marketing operation (ph) (laughter). She says Bartholdi used his model to attract funding from wealthy French and American donors. I see Bedloe Island and what is supposed to be the Statue of Liberty.īEARDSLEY: But Estignard says the diorama was constructed years before the statue was built and given to the U.S. Once there, you look through a window to see a tiny model of New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty as if you were arriving by boat.ĮSTIGNARD: I'm now a passenger, a passenger arriving in Europe. Well, you have to board in the statue.īEARDSLEY: Which means stepping up inside the base. Its carved wooden base is the prow of a ship.ĮSTIGNARD: When you approach the base, you can see it's like a boat. You can see that it's very handmade.īEARDSLEY: Painted dark, greenish brown to look like bronze, this plaster Statue of Liberty also stands atop a pedestal. MARIE LAURE ESTIGNARD: You can see all the way Bartholdi worked with all these details. Marie Laure Estignard is curator and director of the Musee des Arts et Metiers. ![]() Both statues were cast from the original plaster model sculpted by Auguste Bartholdi that is part of the Science Museum's permanent collection. Cast just 10 years ago, she will join her older and larger sister, who's made of copper and stands with pedestal 305 feet tall. Eleanor Beardsley reports from the statue's point of departure in Paris, and Jeff Lunden greets her arrival on New York's Ellis Island.ĮLEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In early June, the 9 1/2-foot tall bronze statue was lifted by crane from its home in front of a museum in central Paris to begin its trip to New York. Now, the statue's little sister has arrived to spend Independence Day aside her monumental sibling. Roughly 135 years ago, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States. ![]()
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