Miss Freedom, Copper statue at Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, US

Miss Freedom is a white-painted hollow copper statue on the dome of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, rising about 26 feet (8 meters) tall. It holds a torch in one hand and a sword in the other, with internal tube systems that allow maintenance of the lighting equipment.

Miss Freedom was installed on the Georgia State Capitol dome in 1888, a year before the building opened on March 20, 1889. Records of its commissioning were burned, but surviving documents suggest the architects Edbrooke and Burnham ordered it from the W.H. Mullins Manufacturing Company of Salem, Ohio. The hollow copper statue was painted white and weighed over 1,600 pounds.

The statue wears a Phrygian cap topped with a star, a classical symbol of freedom and justice positioned above the seat of government. This form appears in many democratic monuments and shapes how people see the Capitol building.

The statue sits high on the Capitol dome and is best viewed from outside by looking up from the surrounding plaza. The best light for photographs comes during early morning or late afternoon.

The torch was meant to be a working light continuously, but it stayed dark until it was rebuilt in 1959. It is a mercury-vapor lamp casting a blue-green light at night, and tube and trolley systems let the bulb be changed from inside the statue.