Mount RUshmore National Memorial

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29 HORE, USA RUSH USA 29 1991 57751 KOSL OW SD

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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL First Day of Issue: March 29, 1991 First Issue Location: Mount Rushmore, SD America, in its vastness, has many natural wonders befit- ting a great nation. Yet of all these, Mount Rushmore National Memorial located southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota, is a bit unusual, for it is both a natural and man-made wonder. Each year, over two million visitors gaze in wonder at the stern visages of four great men who molded the nation, their faces carved from a huge moun- tain of solid granite. In 1927, Gutzon Borglum, an impas- sioned student of Rodin in Paris, began the nation's most ambitious sculpture. Working for fourteen years, Borglum meticulously measured, marked and finally chiseled into the tough granite of the 5,725-foot high mountain. Each of the faces of these U.S. presidents is as high as a six story building, rising into the thin South Dakota air above the forests of pine. This Maximum Card and its stamp pay tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the inspiring monu- ment. Both are First Day of Issue postmarked fifty years after work stopped on the monument in 1941. No. 91-13 MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL SOCIETY MEMORIA 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