Vertebrate Paleontology Storage and Work Area

Summary

The Vertebrate Paleontology storage and work area in the National Museum of Natural History. There are fossils on tables in the room and three men are working on objects. On the rear wall is a fossil of a Plesiosaurs, an aquatic reptile from the end of the Triassic period (220 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).

Subject

• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

For another picture of this room and the Plesiosaurs see neg # 4886-B. This print is reproduced in USNM Bulletin 80, Plate 14, following page 104. * There are many other photographs of the NMNH in this location, as well as throughout RU79, Box 9.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1A

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1915?

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Vertebrates
• Storage
• Marine mammals, Fossil
• Laboratories
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Employees
• Plesiosaurus
• Workshops
• Museums
• Paleontology
• Fossils
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Museums--Employees

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Interior

ID Number

97-3053

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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