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The Liberty Bank is crowned with two reduced in-scale replicas of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty. High and dry above Main Street, the twin matrons from a distinctive, if slightly fantastic, feature of the Buffalo skyline. Facing east and west, they are prime symbols in the iconography of Buffalo as a city with a strategic national position. Indeed, Bossom may have remembered that Bartholdi originally envisioned his colossus at the mouth of the Suez Canal, where it was to have marked and international coming together of far-flung civilizations.
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