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hello and welcome to history pod on the 17th of June 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor onboard the French steamship Asare it arrived disassembled and it remained in its 210 separate crates for ten months while construction of the enormous pedestal that it was to stand on was completed the Statue was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi a French sculptor who claimed that he was influenced by a conversation with the president of the French anti-slavery society to construct a statue commemorating the union's victory in the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery the proposal was that France would pay for the statue itself as long as America paid for the pedestal the project was announced in September 1875 when the name of the statue was revealed Liberty enlightening the world the internal structure that supports the Statue was designed by French str