Light sketches huge faces on mountain

Sketching out 60-ft. heads of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on the bald rock face of Rushmore Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota is one of the huge tasks which Gutson Borglum, noted sculptor of memorials, is carrying out with electric light preliminary to the actual carving. Lantern slides projected at night against the mountain by powerful light were used for this work when Borglum laid out and partly executed the famous memorial of the South on Stone Mountain near Atlanta. The faces are drawn on the slides and thrown on the rock surface in the exact size of the finished work. Painters in slings hung against the sheer rock surface of the mountain drew the outlines indicated by the light so that on the following days the work of stone cutting could proceed.