The Statue of Liberty

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

Pictured, the Statue of Liberty photographed from a helicopter by LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White in 1952.

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(Margaret Bourke-White—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)