In 1865, Frenchman Édouard de Laboulaye proposed a monumental gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, believing that honoring the United States after the passage of the 13th Amendment would strengthen the cause of democracy in France and show that justice and liberty for all were possible. Ten years later, with sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, he set plans in motion for a statue called Liberty Enlightening the World, to be funded by the French people while Americans paid for the pedestal. Bartholdi developed a design rich in symbolism: a crown representing light and sun rays reaching the world, a tablet inscribed with July 4, 1776, broken shackles and chains at the foot symbolizing the end of slavery, and a raised torch expressing the statue's name. Shipped to the United States aboard the French navy ship Istre in 350 pieces packed in 214 crates, it arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, remained unassembled on Bedloe's Island until the pedestal was finished in 1886, and was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886, though Laboulaye had died in 1883 before its completion. The Statue of Liberty became an internationally recognized symbol of freedom and democracy. One of only twelve casts made from Bartholdi's original plaster model, a nine-foot-tall bronze replica was created through digital three-dimensional metrology because the original could not be moved or touched. Purchased by Jimmy Rane in 2020 and installed in 2022 in memory of his grandfather, Giuseppe Reina, the replica also recalls Giuseppe's 1907 immigration from Cammarata, Sicily, when he sailed on the Liguria, saw the Statue of Liberty through tears as he approached Ellis Island, and began a new life in America after an immigration officer recorded his name as Joseph Rane.