Description:Miss Liberty was to be a symbol of friendship of two nations, a gift from the French - children, artists, composers, rich people and poor - to all Americans.Auguste Bartholdi began by making a 36-foot model, marking it off into 300 parts to be enlarged and made separately. As the model grew in the courtyard of his studio it looked down on the roofs of Paris. Twenty newsmen were entertained for lunch in the knee of the model.Miss Liberty proper was a lady of parts. Her head went to the Paris World's Fair in a sturdy wagon pulled by twelve horses. Her finished arm, with an index finger taller than a man, was sent to America for the one-hundredth anniversary of American independence. Finished at last, she arrived in America in 214 crates.Now she lifts her lamp "beside the golden door." More than a symbol of friendship, she has come to stand for freedom for the whole world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of the Liberty Bell (Cornerstones of Freedom). To get started finding The Story of the Liberty Bell (Cornerstones of Freedom), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
32
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Childrens Press
Release
1965
ISBN
The Story of the Liberty Bell (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Description: Miss Liberty was to be a symbol of friendship of two nations, a gift from the French - children, artists, composers, rich people and poor - to all Americans.Auguste Bartholdi began by making a 36-foot model, marking it off into 300 parts to be enlarged and made separately. As the model grew in the courtyard of his studio it looked down on the roofs of Paris. Twenty newsmen were entertained for lunch in the knee of the model.Miss Liberty proper was a lady of parts. Her head went to the Paris World's Fair in a sturdy wagon pulled by twelve horses. Her finished arm, with an index finger taller than a man, was sent to America for the one-hundredth anniversary of American independence. Finished at last, she arrived in America in 214 crates.Now she lifts her lamp "beside the golden door." More than a symbol of friendship, she has come to stand for freedom for the whole world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of the Liberty Bell (Cornerstones of Freedom). To get started finding The Story of the Liberty Bell (Cornerstones of Freedom), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.