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Photographer: Volker Schmidt
Taken: May 2008
Caption: Plaque at Grand View Terrace
Additional Description: A Monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated…..Let us place there. Carved high, as close to heaven as we can,….our Leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away.
Gutzon Borglum - 1930 ---------- The union of these four Presidents carved on the face of the everlasting hills of South Dakota will constitute a distinctly National Monument. It will be decidedly American in its conception, in its magnitude, in its meaning and altogether worthy of our Country. From Dedication
Address by President Calvin Coolidge - 1927
Submitted: May 14, 2011, by Volker Schmidt of Albstadt, Germany.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153134
File Size: 1.370 Megabytes

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