For a Lady pushing fifty, Miss Liberty still looks good. In 1933, two years prior to this photo, the National Park Service took over the administration of the Statue of Liberty from the War Department. In 1938, they closed the Statue for renovation from May until December. Most of the buildings in this photograph were demolished as part of the renovation effort by the Works Progress Administration, which was a New Deal program designed to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression.
