Close-Up of Skeleton, Dinosaur National Monument Quarry

Summary

face of a quarry with a close-up of a dinosaur skeleton partially uncovered in the Carnegie Quarry at what is now Dinosaur National Monument. Scale can be realized by noting the man crouched in the lower right of the image. The Carnegie Museum excavated in the area between 1909 and 1922, at which time they abandoned operations. The United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) began excavating the area in 1923.

Subject

• United States National Museum
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• United States National Museum Department of Paleontology
• Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)

Notes

• Lantern slide copied from photograph taken by Earl Douglass, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
• See Plate 2 in Charles Gilmore's publication, "On a newly mounted skeleton of Diplodocus in the United States National Museum," Proceedings of the United States National Museum No 2941, pages 1-21, 1933.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 12-492, Image No. SIA2012-2789

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

1922

Restrictions & Rights

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Topic

• Quarries and quarrying
• Fossils

Place

Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. and Utah)

Form/Genre

Lantern slides

Local number

SIA Acc. 12-492 [SIA2012-2789]

Physical description

4 x 3.25;

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