LibGuides: American Experience: Monuments: Liberty Bell &amp; Mount Rushmore

Liberty Bell

Click on the Image to visit the Liberty Bell in VR

The Liberty Bell

Why is the Liberty Bell cracked?
Includes video

Journeys across America helped secure Liberty Bell's iconic status

Liberty Bell Gallery

Earliest Known Representation of the Liberty Bell

From the anti-slavery booklet, The Liberty Bell, published by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, Boston, 1839.

From 1876 to 1885, the bell hung in the tower room from a chain of 13 links.

Wood engraving in David Scattergood, Hand Book of the State House, Philadelphia, 1890.

Liberty Bell and Stairway, Independence Hall [Postcard]

Postcard from the early 20th Century. NYPL Digital Collection.

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore: History and Culture

Mount Rushmore

The Last Living Carver of Mount Rushmore Reflects on the Monument at 75

Mount Rushmore Gallery

Mount Rushmore in 1905, before work began on the four faces.

National Park Service Photo.

Construction of Mount Rushmore

Construction on the George Washington portrait at Mount Rushmore, c. 1932. Public Domain.

Mount Rushmore on a Snowy Day

Photo by South Dakota. 2008. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Fireworks detonate above Mount Rushmore National Memorial, July 3, 2008.

U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marc I. Lane

Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watch an aerial review of aircraft Friday, July 3, 2020, during South Dakota’s 2020 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour). Public Domain.