She wasn’t always green
On dedication day in 1886 the Statue of Liberty was the colour of a new penny. Drag the years across her and watch the harbor air do its work.
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Penny-bright copper
1906: Congress votes $62,000 to paint her. Would you?
How many of you make one Lady Liberty?
All measurements from the National Park Service’s statue statistics. Enter your height:
Copper skin3/32 inchabout two pennies thick, hammered by hand into shape
Wind sway3 in · 6 inthe statue sways about 3 inches in strong wind; the torch about 6
The crown25 windows · 7 raysreached by 377 steps from the ground
Copper weight179,200 lbout of a total of about 560,000 lb (NPS facts)
The tablet readsJULY IV MDCCLXXVIJuly 4, 1776, in Roman numerals
The flame24-karat goldgold leaf covers the torch flame installed in 1986