In nineteen oh three, a bronze plaque was placed on the inner wall of the statue's support structure or pedestal.

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It took workers four months to put together the statue on the new pedestal.

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And the pedestal was finished. In France,workers separated the statue into three hundred fifty pieces, put them on a ship and sent them across the ocean.

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But the pedestal, being built in New York, was not finished.

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When it re-opened,visitors could only go onto the statue's pedestal.

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Take him off the pedestal and look him in the eye as a human being.

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