2. Who built Lady Liberty?
• Frederic Bartholdi, a
French sculptor, was
awarded with the
Design Patent for
designing Lady Liberty.
• It is believed that
Frederic Bartholdi used
his mom’s ,head to
make a model.
3. What is Lady Liberty?
• She is a famous landmark.
• The Statue of Liberty was
made with concrete for
the pedestal, iron for the
shell, and copper for the
skin.
• Her copper skin is thinner
than two pennies stacked
on each other.
4. When was she built?
• She was designed
in eighteen seventy
six.
• She was built in
eighteen ninety six.
5. Where was Lady Liberty built?
• She was built in
Paris ,then
disassembled
and shipped to
New York where
she was
reassembled in
her current
location.
• Her replica , in
France was built
facing her.
6. Why was the Statue of Liberty Built?
• The Statue was built and donated by
French, because the they allied with the
U.S. during the American revolution.
7. Interesting Stuff
• Winds at fifty miles an hour can tilt the statue up to
three inches and the torch five inches.
• There are hundreds of replicas of her erected
around the world.
• The statue was built in France and rebuilt in the
U.S.
• It broke a world record of the biggest man made
structure; beating the Brooklyn Bridge by twenty
nine feet.
• The original design had her with shackles on her
hands ,but in the final design she is stepping over
chains.
