Mammoth Teeth from Florida
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Creator: Gidley, James Williams 1866-1931
Form/Genre: Lantern slides
Date: 1925
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 12-492, Image No. SIA2012-2785
Mammoth teeth collected from the Melbourne/Vero Beach area in Florida sometime during the 1920s, most likely 1924 or 1925. The man on the left is C. P. Singleton. The woman is unidentified, but may be his wife. Mr. Singleton had found fossil bones and human remains, apparently of Pleistocene age, in close proximity at a site near Melbourne, Florida. He reported the find to the United States National Museum and in mid-1925, James Gidley of the USNM, and Frederick Loomis of Amherst College, were sent to investigate. Loomis, Singleton, and Gidley met in Melbourne and spent six weeks carefully excavating three local sites. Gidley returned for further excavations through 1930.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 12-492, Image No. SIA2012-2785
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1925
Fossils
Melbourne (Fla.)
Lantern slides
SIA Acc. 12-492 [SIA2012-2785]
4 x 3.25;