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Statue of Liberty, New York, New York, 1954

"'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ...'

"Since 1886 the Statue of Liberty, bearing Emma Lazarus's words of welcome on its base, has held aloft a torch in New York Harbor. Popular subscription by Frenchmen bought the statue; Americans paid for the pedestal; the Government donated the site—tiny Bedloe's Island, once known as Great Oyster."

—From "Here's New York Harbor," December 1954, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by David S. Boyer