Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi's statue was finished in January of 1884, and six months later a formal presentation of it was made to the American ambassador in Paris on July 4. It was then disassembled, packed into 214 cases, and loaded onto the frigate Isere. In October 1886, the structure was officially presented as at gift of friendship from the people of France, and installed on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
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