Word: borglum
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...Craftsman French and the portraits of the Johansens could altogether take away a sense of strangeness. Colonists, last week, saw Albert Sterner's dramatic Lady Macbeth, the fine portraits by the sisters Emmett: Lydia Field and Leslie. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman, successor of John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in chiseling the heroic Stone Mountain relief, showed Vanity, a bronze figure of a woman with a mirror. These were the work of the native colonists...
...Peachtree Street. Then there were special trains to take everyone out to the foot of Stone Mountain, 18 miles from town. It was the 63rd anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and part of the monster memorial sculptures to the Confederate Armies, carved first by Gutzon Borglum, later by Augustus Lukeman, were ready for unveiling...
Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, to confer...
...President sat in a grandstand and listened to a speech. "Every American boy ought to want to be President of the United States, but when he develops and finds his real work that work may be even more important than being President. . . ." The speechmaker was Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor;* the occasion was the dedication of a Boy Scout camp near Custer, S. Dak. The President was informed that its name would be Camp Coolidge...
...Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that was laid by the hand of the Almighty," said the President. ķAt the annual carnival of the Rapid City Elks in the Alfalfa Palace fair grounds, President Coolidge...