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Mount Rushmore
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, about 2 mi southwest of Keystone, South Da
View of Mount Rushmore, showing Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
View of Mount Rushmore, showing Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
Doane Robinson was inspired by this view on the Needles Highway to create the sculpture, though this location was ultimately not chosen
Doane Robinson was inspired by this view on the Needles Highway to create the sculpture, though this location was ultimately not chosen
The completed sculpture
The completed sculpture
Mount Rushmore (Six Grandfathers) before construction, c. 1905
Mount Rushmore (Six Grandfathers) before construction, c. 1905
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. He was also the second vice president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A prolific wri
Mount Rushmore
…of his son, Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features 60-foot-tall (18 m) depictions of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, respectively chosen to represent the nation's foundation, expansion, development, and preservation. Mount…
Portrait, c. 1800
Portrait, c. 1800
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, where Jefferson studied in 1761 and 1762
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, where Jefferson studied in 1761 and 1762
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
The Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson largely wrote in isolation between June 11 and 28, 1776, from a floor he was renting in a home at 700
The Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson largely wrote in isolation between June 11 and 28, 1776, from a floor he was renting in a home at 700 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia, contain "the most potent and consequential words in American history," historian Joseph Ellis later wrote.