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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: September 11, 2013
Caption: Georgia State Capitol "Miss Freedom" Statue
(interpretive exhibit inside the Capitol)
Additional Description: On top of the Capitol dome stands Miss Freedom, a statue of a female figure who clasps a sword in her left hand and holds a lighted torch in her right.

Miss Freedom is often mistaken for the Statue of Liberty, but the two statues are not the same. Although both symbolize freedom, the Statue of Liberty has a different headdress and carries a book rather than a sword.

The liberty cap she wears is like those worn by ex-slaves or freedmen in ancient Rome. During the French Revolution patriots wore the liberty cap as a symbol of freedom from a repressive government.

Liberty at the Capitol
The Georgia State Capitol has its own Statue of Liberty. The Atlanta Council of Boy Scouts presented this small-scale reproduction to the state and placed it on the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds in February 1951.
Submitted: January 11, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p460351
File Size: 1.488 Megabytes

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