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<\/a><\/p>\nYou might be thinking, “Wow — it kinda looks like there’s a face in those rocks! \u00a0Weird, huh?”<\/em><\/p>\n Well, that’s because Gutzon Borglum<\/a> put <\/em>a face there: that is several years away from becoming the Mount Rushmore<\/a> we know and love today — President Washington is only partially done:<\/p>\n We’ve got a lot of old photos – almost more than we know what to do with. \u00a0 This one is so over-saturated, so light, that I had to really darken it in Photoshop just to see anything, and I didn’t realize what it was at first: You might be thinking, “Wow — it kinda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,258,619,620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mount-rushmore-only-washington-finished-1934-detail-450x498.jpg\" "\\"mount-rushmore-only-washington-finished-1934-detail\\"")
<\/a>Carving started in 1927, and the finished Washington face was unveiled to the public on July 4th, 1934<\/a>, so that puts this photo somewhere in between, probably 1932 or 1933. \u00a0Based on this 1932 photo<\/a>, progress seemed at about the same point, so 1932 is probably right. \u00a0They didn’t carve all the faces at once — Washington was completed in 1934, Jefferson in 1936, Lincoln in 1937, and then Roosevelt in 1939. \u00a0 About 4 years after the photo above, here’s how much progress they made:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rushmore-card-450x693.jpg\" "\\"rushmore-card\\"")
<\/a>Jefferson’s nearly done and they got Lincoln’s nose, which puts this postcard at about 1936 or 1937.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"