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Statue of Liberty

Happy 126th birthday to the Statue of Liberty! Today also marks the end of a year worth of renovations to the Statue.

The American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (1883), which is the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty (installed on bronze plaque in 1903). The above image is of the…

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