Exploring Historical Photos From Unique Perspectives You’ve Never Seen Before

By Shruti

Building Rushmore

Here’s a planned picture from around 1934. It shows a worker pretending to hang from Thomas Jefferson’s eye on Mount Rushmore. They were sculpting those big presidential faces there, which was a massive job. About 400 people worked on it for nearly 13 years. Originally, they wanted to carve the bodies too, but that was too tough, so they had to stop with the heads.