Statue of Liberty 5 Crazy Facts or How It Almost Spoke and Went to Egypt
Statue of Liberty 5 Crazy Facts or How It Almost Spoke and Went to Egypt
When we think of statue of liberty, to many of us the imagery that usually comes are associations with tourists, souvenirs, freedom and giant lady on an island. But here at Souvenirs.nyc we have collected and create infographic for you to see that story of Statue of Liberty has had its own crazy twist and turns over the years.
The Statue was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Statue designer, did not craft the basic design of Liberty specifically for America. In 1867, he met with the Khedive, the leader of Egypt, and proposed creating a great work as wondrous as the pyramids or sphinxes. He then designed a colossal woman holding up a lamp to stand as a lighthouse at the entrance of the Suez Canal.
Statue of Liberty 5 Crazy Facts or How It Almost Spoke and Went to Egypt
Thomas Edison once had plans to make the statue talk.
When Edison introduced the phonograph to the public in 1878, he told the newspapers that he was designing a “monster disc” for the interior of the Statue of Liberty that would allow the statue to deliver speeches that could be heard up to the northern part of Manhattan.
The Statue of Liberty also nearly went to Boston.
In 1882, when the statue was well under construction in Paris, but fundraising efforts were stalling in New York, Boston made a play to get the statue.
New York Times replied immediately “ …This statue is dear to us, though we have never looked upon it, and no third rate town is going to step in and take it from us.
New York City’s Central Park and Prospect Park were both considered as locations.
When Bartholdi first arrived in New York in 1871, he considered Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and the newly constructed Central Park as possible locations for the statue.
The statue was originally supposed to be a lighthouse.
When 18th US President Ulysses Grant authorized the use of Bedloe Island (now Liberty Island) for the statue, he specified that the Statue of Liberty would be a lighthouse. Which it was for 16 years.
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