George Washington Sculpture profile on Mount Rushmore as seem from a side road leading to the monument
The dedication of George Washington took place on July 4, 1930. The stone at the original location for the Thomas Jefferson carving turned out to have a detrimental crack requiring its blasting off after two years of work. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the dedication of the Jefferson portrait in its present location in 1936. He was so inspired that he gave an impromptu speech. Dedications for Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt took place in 1937 and 1939. Work on the massive sculpture continued until October 1941. Borglum did not live to see it completed; he died in March 1941. Lincoln Borglum finished the work after his father’s sudden death, but the official dedication of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial did not come until 1991, 67 years after Doane Robinson first had the idea.
Size: 2720px × 3520px
Location: Side road leading to Mount Rushmore, National Monument, South Dakota, USA
Photo credit: © Vincent Palermo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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