Cub Scouts View the Stegosaurus

ID: 44591-B or 2004-10353

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. early 1950s

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 14

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Summary

A group of Cub Scouts are being shown the skeleton of a Stegosaurus dinosaur, which is part of the Paleontology Exhibition in the United States National Museum's (USNM) Natural History Building (NHB), now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). At the time of this picture, the exhibit was called the "Hall of Extinct Monsters." Behind the skeleton of the stegosaurus is a papier-mache model of the stegosaurus.

Subject

  • United States National Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Dinosaur Hall (Exhibition)
  • Hall of Extinct Monsters
  • Boy Scouts of America

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Note that this exhibit had been removed by 1957.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 14

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. early 1950s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Dinosaurs
  • Stegosaurus
  • Cub Scouts
  • Models (representations)
  • Paleontology, Vertebrate
  • Fossil Vertebrates
  • Specimens
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Children
  • Paleontology
  • Paleontology Exhibit
  • Models and modelmaking
  • Museum visitors

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid
  • Exhibit

ID Number

44591-B or 2004-10353

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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