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How did the grandiose memorial "Mount Rushmore"

"Mount Rushmore" is a national memorial carved into the same granite rock in South Dakota, from which four of the greatest US president look. The construction of the memorial was completed on October 31, 1941, thus, in 2016 he turned 75 years old.

The construction of the national memorial "Mount Rushmore", around 1941. Partially carved in the rock sculptural portraits of George Washington (1732 - 1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865).

The model of the future national memorial "Mount Rushmore", which is a bas-relief carved in the rock, containing sculptures of four US presidents, in the studio of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, circa 1925.

Workers polish the head of the figure of George Washington under the guidance of sculptor Gutzon Borglum (left), July 22, 1929.

President Franklin Roosevelt visits Mount Rushmore, August 31, 1936. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum stands in the center with a raised hand and the President, his son and other members of the delegation visiting the memorial.

The construction of the national memorial "Mount Rushmore" in 1936.

Builders with pneumatic hammers are working to create the eye of the sculpture of President Theodore Roosevelt, part of the national memorial "Mount Rushmore", around 1939.

Creation of a sculpture by George Washington, circa 1941.

The creation of the sculpture by Thomas Jefferson, circa 1941.

Scaffolding around the partially sculpted from the rock sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, around 1941.

Sculptor Lincoln Borgluma (son of Gutzon Borglum) on the scaffolding near the face of the sculpture of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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