Liberty of the Statue: Research by Chris Kennedy
Cassie Thornton
Research
- Garb: stola (robe); pilleus (brimless skullcap) vs. diadem (crown)
- Figure: Columbia and Libertas (goddesses of freedom and liberty)
- History: there used to be thousands of oyster beds surrounding Liberty Island; the island was used as a site for quarantine and immigration
- Funding: the use of liberty bonds and alternative ways to fund (The World Magazine conducts a drive to raise money and promises to publish everyones name to finish construction on the statue)
- Transportation: parts of the lady travel around france to expos and fairs and then her body is floated across the ocean
- Architecture – interior staircases and the concave shape of Columbia’s body; scaffolding around the statute
- People: Édouard René de Laboulaye and Joseph Pulitzer
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pilleus or pilleum in Latin) was a brimless, felt cap worn by sailors in Ancient Greece….The pileus was especially associated with the manumission of slaves
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Columbia is an historical and poetic name for America – and the early United States of America in particular, for which it is also the name of its female personification.
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The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga, or the pallium, that were worn by men.
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A diadem is a type of crown, specifically an ornamental headband worn by Eastern monarchs and others as a badge of royalty.
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two interior spiral staircases,
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Liberty Loan Rally
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The World characterized it as "more like a glowworm than a beacon."
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Liberty Island Aliens
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The Great Oyster Island: Liberty Island was once surrounded by vast shellfish beds like this oyster bed on Cockspur Island, Georgia. At the time of European colonialization of the Hudson River estuary in the 17th century, much of the west side Upper New York Bay contained large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster beds, a major source of food for Lenape population who lived there at the time. There were several islands which were not completely submerged at high tide. Three of them (later to be known as Liberty, Ellis Island and Black Tom) were given the name Oyster Islands (oester eilanden) by the settlers to the New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states. The oyster beds would remain a major source of food for nearly three centuries.[7] Landfilling after the turn of the 19th to 20th century, particularly by Lehigh Valley Railroad and Central Railroad of New Jersey, eventually obliterated the beds, engulfed one island and brought the shoreline much closer to the others.
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on February 18, 1758 the Corporation of the City of New York bought the island for £1,000 for use as a pest house.