In today's peek into the archives, Dwight Franklin models a bullfrog (1911).
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In today's peek into the archives, trucks from the Department of Public Education line up in front of the Museum before delivering lantern slides and items from the nature study collection to public schools (January 1927). Browse more images from the Museum's archives here.
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Here's today's peek into the archives: Photographs of an unfinished clay model of an Alaska brown bear, with noted measurements. These images were used in the making of the iconic diorama seen today in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals.
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The American Museum of Natural History's Central Asiatic Expeditions were among the first to include researchers from various fields: archeologists, geologists, zoologists, and paleontologists.
"As we sat in the mess tent at night...it was most interesting to see how puzzling situations in geology would be clarified by the paleontologists; how the topographer brought out important features that gave the key to physiographic difficulties..." wrote Roy Chapman Andrews, the expedition's leader who would later become the Museum's director.
Pictured here, the expedition group enjoys a concert on the electrical Victrola during the Third Asiatic Expedition (dated 1921-1930).
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From the archives: a caribou study for the Hall of North American Mammals Dated 1902, this drawing identifies anatomical measurements for use in creating a clay model of a caribou. An example of a clay model is pictured in the bottom photograph. Find more images from our archives in the Picturing the Museum collection.
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Today's peek into the archives comes from the Museum's lantern slide collection. These hand-colored images were originally used to illustrate public lectures at the Museum.
Pictured: Roy Chapman Andrews and Walter Granger with dinosaur bones on the Third Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia (1921-1930)
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“He will probably be set down as one of the most famous lovers of all natural things,” wrote Russell Owen of Carl Akeley in 1936.
In this photo, exhibition staff apply finishing touches to the mountain gorilla diorama in the Museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Explorer, naturalist, artist, and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who designed this iconic hall, first encountered the mountain gorilla in 1921. Returning to Africa for additional research in 1926, Akeley died near this site and was buried on the side of Mount Mikeno, which is depicted in the background painting.
Today's peek into the archives comes from the New York Times' The Lively Morgue.
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A botanical sketch used in creating the Grant caribou diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals, which first opened in 1942.
Pictured: Buck brush and fire weed
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Today's peek into the archives is all about whales: A common finback whale skeleton from Provincetown, MA on display in 1906. For more photos from the archives, explore the Picturing the Museum collection. (c) AMNH Library/31615
From the archives: A staff member works on a model of the Bison and Pronghorn Diorama (located in the Hall of North American Mammals), February 1939 Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp © AMNH Library/Image #291072