Video: 'How They Built the Statue of Liberty.mov' (June 17, 1885, at 13:07)

(Wednesday, June 17, 1885) — The Statue of Liberty arrived today in New York aboard the French frigate Isère in 214 crates that held the disassembled gift from the people of France.

Some 200,000 people lined the waterfront while hundreds of boats pulled into the harbor to welcome the Isère.