Flag Over Mount Rushmore Coil

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29 RUS JUL 1991 57751 KOSL ow BRE, SD NT

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FLAG OVER MOUNT RUSHMORE COIL First Day of Issue: July 4, 1991 First Issue Location: Mount Rushmore, South Dakota Sacred to the Sioux, coveted by the gold-seeking prospec- tor, and beloved by people all across the nation, the Black Hills of South Dakota are indescribably beautiful. It was here, amid the pine-timbered slopes and jumbled hills of the purest granite that artist Gutzon Borglum envisioned a great monument to America. His “Shrine of Democ- racy” became his obsession, a quest which would con- sume the final years of his life and one which he would never see to completion. On Independence Day 1991, fifty years since work on the massive memorial ceased, Mount Rushmore was officially dedicated — for the first time. A huge crowd watched as the first rays of sunshine bathed the mountains, touching the stony cheeks of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln with the blush of morn- ing. To honor this very special occasion, the U.S. Postal Service issued a second Flag Over Mount Rushmore released appropriately on Independence Day 1991. No. 91-54 NATIONAL TM ©1991 The Maximum Card Collection A division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 ® Original painting for the Maximum Card by Howard Koslow OFFICIAL MAXIMUM CARD