LIBERTY STATUE :

Liberty, Statue of, originally called Liberty Enlightening the World, colossal statue on Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, located in the harbour of New York. The statue, the island, and nearby Ellis Island were declared a national monument in 1924. The statue symbolizing liberty is in the form of a woman wearing flowing robes and a spiked crown who holds a torch aloft in her right hand and carries in her left a book inscribed “July 4, 1776”; broken chains, symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny, lie at her feet. Designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, the statue was given by France to the United States to commemorate the centennial of US independence in 1876. France raised funds by popular subscription to pay for the statue; US donors financed the pedestal and installation of the monument. The work was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886.
The statue, formed of copper sheets riveted to an iron framework, is one of the largest in the world. It measures 93.5 m (306 ft 8 in) from the bottom of the pedestal to the tip of the torch. The figure itself is 46.4 m (152 ft 2 in) high; the right arm is 12.8 m (42 ft) long; the hand is 5.03 m (16 ft 5 in) long; and the head, which is reachable by staircase or emergency lift, measures 8.5 m (28 ft) from neck to diadem and 3.05 m (10 ft) from ear to ear. The statue weighs 254 tonnes (250 tons).
Originally conceived as a gesture of international friendship, the statue has become a global symbol of freedom, marking the arrival of millions of immigrants to the United States. In 1903 the sonnet The New Colossus by the US poet Emma Lazarus was inscribed at the main entrance to the pedestal. The last lines of the verse read:

Give  me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!