<Tr> <Th> Designated </Th> <Td> September 14, 1976 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Location within New York City Location within New York (state) Show map of New York City Show map of New York Show all </Td> </Tr> <P> The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States . The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel . The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886 . </P> <P> The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman liberty goddess . She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence . A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward . The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad . </P>

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