Mail Coach Horses Materialize

Summary

Office of Exhibits Central Modelmakers Lora Moran-Collins and Danny Fielding are hard at work fabricating horses to go with a restored New England stagecoach that was once used to carry mail. The stagecoach, along with a team of horses, will be on display in the National Postal Museum when it opens July 30, 1993. The first of four horses was built with 800 pounds of modeling clay. For the other three horses, seen here in various stages of completion, the modelmakers turned to a new technique using Styrofoam.

Subject

• Department of Exhibits Design and Production
• National Postal Museum (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in Torch, March 1993

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: March 1993

Contact information

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

Date

1993

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Modelmakers
• Models (representations)
• Personnel management
• Fielding, Danny
• Employees
• Exhibitions
• Moran-Collins, Lora
• Museums
• Stage Coach Horses
• Office of Exhibits Central
• Museums--Employees
• Models and modelmaking

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid
• Object

ID Number

93-1079-6 or 93-1079.06

Physical description

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

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