The Statue of Liberty is America’s most famous immigrant. Born in the imagination of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Liberty grew up in a workshop near Paris, France. More than 60 sculptors, plasterers, carpenters, and engineers spent nine years assembling the statue for presentation to the United States. Workers basically designed and built an interior framework—the bones—to hold an exterior layer of thin copper—the skin.
First, Bartholdi came up with the idea to build a colossal female figure modeled after a Roman goddess. He worked through the design process by creating sketches of his idea. Sculptors used
