Meanwhile, publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World had stepped in to help raise funds for the pedestal’s construction, raising more than $100,000 in donations by mid-1885.
After the July 4 presentation to Ambassador Levi Morton in Paris that year, the statue was disassembled and shipped to New York City, where it would be painstakingly reconstructed. fundraising for the building of the statue’s giant pedestal.Ĭonstructed of hammered copper sheets formed over a steel framework perfected by engineer Gustave Eiffel (who joined the project in 1879), the completed Statue of Liberty stood just over 151 feet high and weighed 225 tons when it was completed in 1884. A year later, the completed torch and left forearm went on display in Philadelphia and New York to help with U.S. Work on the statue, formally called “Liberty Enlightening the World,” began in France in 1875.
Upon his return to France, he and Laboulaye created the Franco-American Union, which raised some 600,000 francs from the French people. Bartholdi traveled to the United States in the early 1870s to drum up enthusiasm and raise funds for a proposed Franco-American monument to be located on Bedloe’s Island, in New York’s harbor.
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