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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 86165-KN (Color) "Reception of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World ... The Procession Passing through the Narrows" Hand colored engraving, after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, depicting the mid-1880s arrival of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, which was to be erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. Seen are the French warships Isere (foreground, painted white) and Flore (ahead of Isere, firing a salute). At right, largely hidden behind gun smoke, are USS Alliance and USS Omaha. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 520 pixels

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24 June 2002