Vertebrate Paleontology Hall, NHB

Summary

View is of a portion of the Vertebrate Paleontology Hall, or Dinosaur Hall, in the United States National Museum's (USNM) Natural History Building (NHB), now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The exhibit shows dinosaur skeletons and dinosaur models. At the time of this picture the exhibit was called the "Hall of Extinct Monsters." A papier mache reproduction of a Stegosaurus is at the center and a skeleton of a Triceratops is behind it.

Subject

• United States National Museum
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• Dinosaur Hall (Exhibition)
• Hall of Extinct Monsters
• Natural History Building Vertebrate Paleontology Hall
• Natural History Building
• National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology

Notes

• See also image number 2005-2927. For a close-up view of the stegosaurus, image number MNH-28156.
• Note on photograph refers to "Gazin," (Charles Lewis Gazin), who in 1932 became a curator in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at USNM.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 13

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Date

c. 1930

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Dinosaurs
• Stegosaurus
• Models (representations)
• Paleontology, Vertebrate
• Specimens
• Bones
• Exhibitions
• Skeleton
• Triceratops
• Paleontology Exhibit
• Paleontology
• Models and modelmaking

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-33835B or 33835-B or 2005-2542

Physical description

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

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