The Boy Scouts' "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" Campaign-- Part 2

The copper statues were manufactured by Friedley-Voshardt Co. of Chicago, Illinois,  and could be purchased through the Kansas City Boy Scout office by those wanting to put one up in their community.

The statues were about 8 1/2 feet tall without the base and constructed of sheet copper.  They weighed 290 pounds and cost $350 at the time plus freight.  The mass-produced statues  are not meticulously accurate:  a conservator notes that "her face isn't as mature as the real Statue of Liberty.  It's rounder and more like a little girl's,"

Many of the statues have been lost or destroyed, but preservationists have been able to account for about 100 of them.  Boy Scout Troop 101 of Cheyenne, Wyoming,  has collected photographs of  more than 100 of them.  The list in Wikipedia is now approaching  150 examples.  The Wikipedia article has the entire list.

Some of the statues can be found at these sites:

Birmingham, Alabama
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Greely, Colorado
Burlington, Iowa
Overland Park, Kansas
Richmond, Virginia

Let's hope they are not wrecked by this take-down-the-statue mania we currently have in the United States.

--RoadDog