While work went on in France on the actual statue, fundraising efforts continued in the United States for the pedestal, including contests, benefits and exhibitions.
Near the end, the leading New York newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer used his paper, the World, to raise the last necessary funds. In , Bartholdi completed the statue, which was disassembled, packed in more than crates, and shipped to New York, arriving that June aboard the French frigate Isere. Over the next four months, workers reassembled the statue and mounted it on the pedestal; its height reached feet or 93 meters , including the pedestal. On October 28, , President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of spectators.
In , the U. Between and , some 12 million immigrants were processed on Ellis Island before receiving permission to enter the United States. From , during the peak years of its operation, some 5, to 10, people passed through every day.
Until , the U. After that date, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the U. In , the federal government made the statue a national monument, and it was transferred to the care of the National Parks Service in Meanwhile in France, Bartholdi required the assistance of an engineer to address structural issues associated with designing such a colossal copper sculpture.
Construction of the Statue was completed in France in July The massive sculpture stood tall above the rooftops of Paris awaiting her voyage across the sea.
The ship arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, The pedestal was completed in April and finally, on October 28, , President Grover Cleveland oversaw the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of spectators.
The story of the Statue of Liberty and her island has been one of change. For centuries the island was a major source of food for the Lenape native people and later Dutch settlers. In , the U. Army deemed the island a military post, constructing an point fort to protect New York Harbor. But in during its first half-century, the torch underwent numerous modifications. When the Statue was dedicated in , two rows of portholes had been cut from the copper at the bottom of the torch to illuminate it from inside.
Six years later, an inch belt of glass replaced the upper row of portholes and an octagonal pyramidal skylight with red, white and yellow glass was installed on top of the flame. Changes continued in when copper was removed in about places and replaced with amber-colored cathedral glass.
In a new lighting system was installed that called for two holes 16 inches in diameter to be cut into the floor of the balcony around the flame through which two projectors were installed. In the s when the Foundation was restoring the Statue for its centennial celebration, a team of experts determined that the original torch could not be restored.
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The entire Statue was completed and assembled in Paris between and Also in , construction on the pedestal began in the United States.
Unfortunately, the pedestal for the Statue was not yet complete and the entire structure was not reassembled on Bedloe's Island until Once the pedestal was completed in , the Statue was reassembled with surprising speed by a fearless construction crew - many of whom were new immigrants.
The first piece of the Statue to be reconstructed was Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel's iron framework. The rest of the Statue's elements followed without the use of scaffolding - all construction materials were hoisted up by steam driven cranes and derricks.
This technique was the process of molding light-weight copper sheets by hammering them onto the Statue's hallowed wooden framework. The last section to be completed was the Statue of Liberty's face which remained veiled until the Statue's dedication.
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