Oct. 28, 2011 at 4:18pm with 4 notes
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92y: Photo of cover of Statue of Liberty 50th Anniversary brochure from the Records of the National Park Service. Photo via National Archives at New York City Facebook page, where there are a few more example of ephemera from the Statue of Liberty’s 50th anniversary. You might not know that Emma Lazarus, who penned “The New Colossus,” (y’know: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…”) in 1883, also taught English to Russian immigrants that same year at what was then our “downtown outpost” located on the Lower East Side!

92y:

Photo of cover of Statue of Liberty 50th Anniversary brochure from the Records of the National Park Service. Photo via National Archives at New York City Facebook page, where there are a few more example of ephemera from the Statue of Liberty’s 50th anniversary.

You might not know that Emma Lazarus, who penned “The New Colossus,” (y’know: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…”) in 1883, also taught English to Russian immigrants that same year at what was then our “downtown outpost” located on the Lower East Side!

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