From 1986: Statue of Liberty restoration underway This archived package from FOX 5 WAGA shows the painstaking process of some of Lady Liberty’s restorations from 1984-1986 ahead of her centennial.

The Statue of Liberty was the work of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. For more than a century, people have wondered about the model Bartholdi used for Lady Liberty.

Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi liked the idea and began creating "Liberty Enlightening the World" in 1870. Some mock drawings of the statue included an Egyptian woman marking the ...