Jacob L. Loose Collection

The Abraham Lincoln façade being carved on Mount Rushmore by sculptors tethered by ropes or hanging in baskets about Lincoln's face.

In a photograph likely taken by Jacob Loose, Ella Loose stands at the base of the Wilhem Tell Monument looking at the camera as she supports a bicycle standing beside her. Another bicycle leans...

Thomas Jefferson façade under construction at Mount Rushmore, in Keystone, South Dakota, has the ladders, ropes, and baskets that suspend the sculptors.