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Photographer: Volker Schmidt
Taken: May 2008
Caption: Chronology.
Additional Description:
1923 – Colossal sculpture in the Black Hills first suggested by Doane Robinson.
1924 – Gutzon Borglum’s first visit to the Black Hills.
1927 – Address by President Calvin Coolidge at Mount Rushmore and first actual drilling.
1929 – Senator Norbeck sponsors legislation for first federal funds and creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial commission.
1933 – National Park Service first given jurisdiction of the project.
1936 – Visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 – Final appropriation by Congress for completion of Mount Rushmore sculpture project.
1941 – Death of Gutzon Borglum in Chicago.
Submitted: May 14, 2011, by Volker Schmidt of Albstadt, Germany.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153133
File Size: 1.265 Megabytes

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