Industrial Age · North America · Culture
1886
Statue of Liberty Dedicated
October 28, 1886
Bartholdi's enormous copper figure of Liberty, a gift from France, was dedicated on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor by President Cleveland. Fog hid most of her. Emma Lazarus's poem about huddled masses would be added twenty years later. The statue would become the most famous symbol of immigration in the world.
In context
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Before and after in North America
- Before: 1885: Canadian Pacific Completed
- After: February 8, 1887: Dawes Act
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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