Deborah Bennett and Tim Coffer with Mollusks, 1979
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Creator: Ploskonka, Jeffrey
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: October 1979
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder October 1979
Deborah Bennett, museum technician, and Tim Coffer, data gatherer, sort trays of seashells for the mollusk inventory in the National Museum of Natural History's Division of Mollusks. The shells are part of an overall collection close to 800,000 shells. The inventory, directed by Bennett, is a preparatory step for the collections move to the Smithsonian's Silver Hill Museum Support Center.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
This photo appeared in the October 1979 issue of the Smithsonian Torch.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder October 1979
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 1979
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SIA2009-3232 and 79-9800-18
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic Print