liberty

The statue was built over nine years in sections of copper skin on top of an iron skeleton. It was then transported in components on board a French steamer ship ‘Isere’, reaching New York port in June, 1885. ‘In her initial few decades in the Massive Apple, the state slowly turned from that shiny copper colour to a dull brown and the, ultimately, to the blue-green, or as they’d say back in France, ‘verdigris’ we see nowadays,’ mentioned the video’s narrator. The Statue of Liberty is a copper statue in New York, USA. It was devoted on October 28, 1886....