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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS FROM THE WORLD’S SCRAP-BOOK: NEWS ITEMS ' TITANIC SCULPTURE A HUGE HEAD OF ..

... A HUGE HEAD OF WASHINGTON IN THE MOUNT RUSHMORE MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA. The men examining this sculpture indicate its colossal size. Heads of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt will compose the Mount Rushmore National Monument in the Black Hills ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1931
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

THE INITIAL STAGES IN THE CUTTING OF ONE OF THE COLOSSAL GRANITE

... COLOSSAL GRANITE HEADS ON MOUNT RUSHMORE THE NOSE OF WASHINGTON ; SHOWING DRILLHOLES USED IN BLASTING AWAY THE SOLID ROCK TO OBTAIN A ROUGH OUTLINE. face of “jefferson” and the winch-house above: huge heads on the SUMMIT OF MOUNT RUSHMORE WASHINGTON IN THE CENTRE ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1931
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THE 11,LUST RATED LONDON’ NEWS THE LATEST INNOVATION IN LVXURIOL'S RAIL TRAVEL : THE SILVER DOME,” A TWODECK ..

... April 27, 1946 (CENTRE) SEEN IN FRONT OF THE MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA. During the last weeks of his stay in the United States as Ambassador, Lord Halifax visited the celebrated Mount Rushmore National Monument, and he and Lady Halifax ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 541 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

“NEVER SMIRKED”

... was a serious, sober, but kindly man.” Another Congressman, Mr Francis Case, who comes from the district in which the Mount Rushmore memorial is sitnaied, felt it was not an unpleasant smirk. Mr Boylan, however, is adamant. “I would like to see statues ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1937
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Giant Sculptures on Mountains

... Theodore Roosevelt. It is hoped to have all four heads finished by 1939. _ The group will form a memorial known as the Mount Rushmore Memorial, and is situated near Rapid City, South Dakota. The heads are being carved from models designed by = Gutzon Borglum ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1937
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW CRUISER COMES TO LIVERPOOL ;

... LIVERPOOL ; ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sculptured in the solid rock face at Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.A. It forms a part of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Two workmen are standing nonchalantly on the edge of a 2,500-feet precipice. Liverpool yesterday after ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MOUNTAIN SCULPTURE

... MOUNTAIN SCULPTURE America Honours Her Four Greatest Presidents [By A SPECIAL granite dome of Mount Rushmore iu the Blank Hills South Dakota, America is proceeding with tlie most imposing piece sculpture ever attempted by man. When the work is complete ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1931
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

U.S. HISTORY M SOS WORDS A lAssateis-Top litscriptiew

... the Declaration of Independence to the present day. This will he carved in letters a foot high upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore (South Dakota). alongside the colossal figures of Washington. Jefferson. Lincoln. and Roosevelt now tieing sculptured ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1930
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMERICANA

... accompanied by Senator Fess of Ohio, his guest at the Summer White House, South Dakota, with whom he rode up the slopes of Mount Rushmore to attend the dedication of the National Memorial at the summit ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 374 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs