Excerpt from New York Illustrated, 1915 The Statue of Liberty stands upon Bedloe's Island, 114 miles southwest from the Battery. It was designed by August Bartholdi and presented by the French in 188-1. It is 151 feet high, standing upon a pedestal 155 feet, and symbolizes Libert. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.