[hirundo]

Have you seen the two faces side by side? https://tribzap2it.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/lady-liberty-...

I quite prefer the original myself. The post office made an aesthetic as well as legal mistake. The older Lady Liberty is not as pretty, but she's more handsome. She's less symmetrical, more craggy. Her face has seen more pain and made more hard choices. I get an impression of character that I don't get from Vegas Liberty.

My grandfather immigrated through Ellis Island around 1905. I imagine he passed that grand sculpture on the way, and saw a stronger, more concerned and committed face than Vegas Liberty's.

[efa]

Yeah, how cheesy that the US (the US!) post office used a Vegas statue instead of the one on Ellis Island. What were they thinking!?

[Johnny555]

Probably "This looks like the statue of liberty". Unless I saw the photos side by side, I doubt I'd notice that the Vegas one was not legit or that it looked any different from the real one.

[DonHopkins]

Good thing the US Postal Office didn't make the same mistake and use a picture of a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator on their Elvis Presley Forever stamp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley_Forever_stamp

https://www.lasvegas-entertainment-guide.com/las-vegas-imper...

[lostlogin]

American made versus a foreign import?

[cbcoutinho]

The statue of liberty was a gift from France, so also foreign made.

[jm547ster]

I believe that was the implication

[jedberg]

In another article I read they quoted the person in charge of the decision, who said that he found it on a stock photo site and just like that "newer take on Lady Liberty". Maybe he just thought it was from a different angle or was photoshopped to have softer features?

[joecool1029]

The statue is on Liberty Island, not Ellis Island.

[extra88]

They didn’t say it was but you can see it on the way to Ellis Island.