Construction of the Statue of Liberty
“Paris workshop of Gaget, Gauthier & Co., 1883. Lady Liberty's hammered copper sections rise inside an iron framework. Foreground shows artisans hammering folds into the copper torch sheet; midground reveals Bartholdi inspecting plans with engineer Gustave Eiffel; the towering goddess takes shape under daylight pouring through high industrial skylights of nineteenth-century Paris.”
