{"product_id":"2940013741836","title":"The Statue of Liberty: Its Conception, Its Construction, Its Inauguration, Being a Complete History to the Date of the Inauguration, October 28, 1886 (Illustrated)","description":"The Statue of Liberty: Its Conception, Its Construction, Its Inauguration, Being a Complete History to the Date of the Inauguration, October 28, 1886, and Containing the Official Programme of the Ceremonies on That Occasion (Illustrated) was Edited and Compiled by John J. Garnett. It was published in New York in 1886. (80 pages)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book also contains 14 illustrations that are located at the end of the book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. Conception — Chapter II. Construction — Chapter III. Liberty — a Sonnet — Chapter IV. The American Committee — Chapter V. The French Committee — Chapter VI. Programme of Inauguration Ceremonies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....It was on an evening in the Summer of 1865, the Summer following the Spring when closed the great Civil War in America, that the idea of the statue of \"Liberty\" was first conceived. A memorable evening it was, and one that will hereafter hold a prominent place in the annals of France and of America.\u003cbr\u003e.....M. Bartholdi describes what took place on that historical evening, in the following glowing words:\u003cbr\u003e.....\"One evening, twenty-one years ago, I had been dining at the home of my most regretted and illustrious friend, M. Laboulaye, and his guests were smoking in the conservatory of his charming retreat, Glavigny, near Versailles. It was a gathering of men eminent in politics and letters. The talk fell upon international relations, upon the sentiments of Italy toward France. Some one said that gratitude could not exist among nations, that the least material interest, that the lightest political breath, would break every tie of that sort; coming to the United States, the remark was added that France could no more count on the remembrance of the past.\u003cbr\u003e.....M. Laboulaye observed, that in the case of Italy there had never been a popular tradition of friendship; that in 1859 a service had been done her, but she had been made to feel that France had repaid herself for it; and that fact was sufficient to make the remembrance unpleasant to the Italians. It was a wholly different thing in the case of other nations or peoples with whom there was a genuine flow of sympathy, caused, it might be, by experiences common to the two nations, it might be by affinity of aspiration, or by the influence of certain feelings which served as a bond of union.\u003cbr\u003e.....The statue is made of repousse copper, one-eighth of an inch thick. The envelope is kept in position by iron plates and braces riveting it to a frame work. Each section of the shell is so supported from the frame that it will not be forced to carry the weight of any of the section above it; in other words, each part will be self-sustaining. The frame consists of four angle iron corner posts united by horizontal and diagonal angle pieces, dividing each side into panels. To approach more closely to the shell, the main frame is provided with side extensions located according to the contour of the figure. The frames supporting them are similar in design to the main frame, but of lighter material, and are united to the upper end of the main frame.\u003cbr\u003e.....The head will easily accommodate forty persons, and the torch which is reached by a spiral staircase will hold twelve persons. This torch contains five electric lamps of 30,000 candle power, the light of which will be thrown heavenward. It is believed that the light will so illuminate passing clouds that they will be visible at a distance of 100 miles. Four electric lights of 6,000 candle power each are be placed at the foot of the statue, so as to illuminate it. The diadem on the head of the figure contains incandescent lamps to give the effect of jewels.\u003cbr\u003e.....Thus was the statue built. It was executed in about six years, but the work met with repeated delays, and was not prosecuted continuously until within the last few months of 1884. Not alone Bartholdi, the designer and chief sculptor, but many other French sculptors of note, labored in the erection of the statue; so eminent an engineer as M. Eiffel had entire charge of the ironwork and bracing: of the figure, and the work itself was done in the house of Graget, Gauthier \u0026amp; Co., of Paris. The weight of this stupendous statue is 440,000 pounds, of which 176,000 are copper, and the remainder wrought iron.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152728539376,"sku":"2940013741836","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013741836_p0.jpg?v=1763589634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013741836","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}