On June 17, 1885, the French Steamer Isère, laden with the Statue of Liberty reached the New York port safely. New Yorkers displayed their new-found enthusiasm for the statue, as the French vessel arrived with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. Two hundred thousand people lined the docks and hundreds of boats put to sea to welcome the Isère. After five months of daily calls to donate to the statue fund, on August 11, 1885, the World announced that $102,000 had been raised from 120,000 donors, and that 80 percent of the total had been received in sums of less than one dollar.
Wikipedia (engelska) har allt och lite till om statyn; intressant med t.ex. alla måttuppgifter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
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