Rhinoceros Diorama

ID: SIA2010-0484

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Exhibit

Date: post 1959

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 3

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Summary

Three square-lipped rhinoceroses are displayed in a diorama in mammal hall of the National Museum of Natural History. These specimens come from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition of 1909-1910.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Hall of Mammals
  • Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

For an earlier exhibit of the square-lipped rhinoceroses see Neg. #28234.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 3

Contact information

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

Date

post 1959

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Taxidermy
  • Animals
  • Natural History
  • Zoology
  • Rhinoceroses
  • Exhibitions
  • Collection and preservation
  • Dioramas
  • Natural history
  • Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation

Place

Africa

Form/Genre

  • Exhibit
  • Photographic print

ID Number

SIA2010-0484

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10 w x 6 h; Type of Image: exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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