When the Statue of Liberty was completed in France and ready to be shipped to the United States, it was disassembled into 300 pieces and packed in 214 wooden crates, arriving in New York on June 17, 1886. The torch alone, which was displayed in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial, required 21 crates for shipping.The above photograph shows the head of Lady Liberty on display in a Paris park in 1883.
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