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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 6, 2015
Caption: Plaque to the right of the Borglum bust
Additional Description: A monuments 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: October 9, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p332830
File Size: 3.517 Megabytes

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