What was the name of the French gift dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886?

The Statue of Liberty was the French gift dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886.

France presented the monument to the United States to commemorate the alliance between the two countries during the American Revolution and to celebrate shared ideals of liberty. Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the statue, while engineer Gustave Eiffel helped create its internal iron framework.

The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886, during a ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. Its copper exterior depicts a robed female figure holding a torch in her raised right hand and a tablet in her left hand. The tablet bears the date July 4, 1776, linking the monument to American independence.

The statue stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. Its full official name is Liberty Enlightening the World. The nearby Ellis Island immigration station opened later, in 1892, so the statue and the immigration center are historically connected but are not the same site.