Carving Jefferson on Mount Rushmore, 1930s
Workers carving Jefferson's head on Mount Rushmore, The workers had to endure conditions that varied from blazing hot to bitter cold and windy. Each day they climbed 700 stairs to the top of the mountain to punch-in on the time clock. Then 3/8 inch thick steel cables lowered them over the front of the 500 foot face of the mountain in a "bosun chair". Jefferson's head was carved after Washington's, initially to the right. Before the head was complete, Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum requested that it should be blasted off due to poor rock quality. Jefferson's head was restarted on Washington's left, and dedicated in 1936. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, and features 60 foot sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of the United States, and attracts over three million visitors annually. Photographed by Charles D'Emery, undated.
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