Old photos of the Statue of Liberty standing in Paris

Here are some curious photographs of this iconic Statue in various states of disarray. They were taken when she was under construction in Paris during the mid-1880s.

"The Statue of Liberty was supposed to be a centennial gift from France to the United States, but funding difficulties waylaid the project for almost a decade. The head and torch were completed long before the base and the rest of the body — these disembodied sculptures were put on display years prior, with the hand ending up at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Only after a decade of fundraising did construction accelerate." via io9