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Carving Begins at Mount Rushmore
On October 4, 1927, carving began on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum directed a project that eventually produced the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Chicago After the Fire: From Burned Blocks to a New Skyline
A photograph taken after the 1871 fire can make Chicago look as though its future had been decided by a wall of flame. A view from around 1905 tells a different story: tall offices, busy transport routes and commercial streets crowded again.
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