The Statue of Liberty was designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi while Gustave Eiffel built the metal framework of the colossal neoclassical sculpture. It was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States and is located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City. On the 28th of October in1886, the statue was dedicated. The figure is a robed Roman liberty goddess called Libertas. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States and is seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.

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