Uploads from Mayank..., tagged french

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi - Liberty Island

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:53:27 -0800

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Born in Colmar, Alsace to Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791-1836) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi née Beysser (1801-1891), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor. When Bartholdi's father died, his mother moved the family to Paris, while maintaining ownership of their house in Colmar, which later became the Bartholdi Museum. He attended the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a BA in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the Musée de la Vie Romantique. Later, Batholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him. The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is Liberty Enlightening the World, better known as the Statue of Liberty.
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Statue Of Liberty

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:56:28 -0800

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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World [French: La Liberté éclairant le monde]) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States.
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The Wheel - Statue Of Liberty Bike

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:55:07 -0800

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This special motorcycle was commissioned by Gold Leaf Corporation and is entirely plated in copper that was preserved from the centennial restoration of the Statue of Liberty National Monument through an exclusive agreement with The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., under direction of The National Park Service / US Department of Interior.
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel - Liberty Island

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:53:31 -0800

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923) was a French structural engineer from the École Centrale Paris, an architect, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is acclaimed for designing the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France.
Notable among his other works is the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States.
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Joseph Pulitzer - Liberty Island

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:53:37 -0800

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Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), born Politzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading national figure in the Democratic party. He crusaded against big business and corruption. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William R. Hearst's New York Journal introduced yellow journalism and opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to the reader with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.
Today he is best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes.
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Statue Of Liberty

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:56:30 -0800

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Statue Of Liberty

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Emma Lazarus - Liberty Island

nobody@flickr.com (Mayank...) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:53:34 -0800

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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American Jewish poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal.
She was honored by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in March of 2008 and was included in a map of historical sites related or dedicated to important women.
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