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MOUNT
RUSHMORE
NATIONAL
MEMORIAL,
BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA 326
103° 27 W.LONG
ELEVATION 6200 FT.
43 53 N. LAT,
SHRINE OF DEMOCRACY
MT. RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL
WORLD'S GREATEST SCULPTURAL WORK BEGAN IN 1927.
GUTZON BORGLUM, WORLD'S ARTIST AND SCULPTOR,
PLANNED AND SUPERVISED THE MONUMENT.
FINANCED BY CONTRIBUTIONS AND FEDERAL FUNDS.
BUSTS ARE PROPORTIONATE TO MEN 485 FT. HIGH.
TOP OF WASHINGTON'S HEAD TO TIP OF CHIN 60 FT.
ROCK IS AGELESS GRANITE. BUSTS ARE OF WASHINGTON,
JEFFERSON, THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND LINCOLN.
MEMORIAL DEDICATED BY CALVIN COOLIDGE 1927.
DEDICATION OF WASHINGTON BY J.S. CULLINAN 1930,
JEFFERSON BY F. D.ROOSEYELT 1936, LINCOLN BY
SEN. BURKE 1937, ROOSEVELT BY GOY. BUSHFIELD 1939.
SCULPTOR DIED 1941, SON CARRIES WORK TO COMPLETION.
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The world's largest sculptured historical monument,
Mount Rushmore National Memorial has been carved in
the granite escarpment of majestic Mount Rushmore,
one of the highest points between the Atlantic and the
Rockies. It is located in Custer State Park, near Key.
stone, South Dakota. Colossal sculptures of George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt, scaled to the size of men 465 feet
high, with head 60 feet high from crown to chin, com-
prise this gigantic and inspiring monument to America's
ideals of liberty and human happiness. Gutzon Borglum,
original designer and sculptor, died in March, 1941,
and the work was completed by his son Lincoln.
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-A “Natural Color Card” by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.-F1-
-Published by Dakota News Agency, Sioux Falls. S.
