Preparing Whale Skeleton for Exhibit

ID: SIA2008-2856

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Exhibit

Date: circa 1960

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7306, Box 2, Folder: Watson M. Perrygo Papers, Taxidermists

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Summary

Exhibit preparators from left to right: Lennie Blush, Frank Greenwell, Leon Frederick, Watson M. Perrygo (kneeling) and Reginald "Bud" Sayre, work to ready a whale skeleton for exhibit in the Osteology Hall in the National Museum of Natural History

Subject

  • Sayre, Reginald 'Bud'
  • Greenwell, Frank M
  • Perrygo, Watson M. 1906-1984
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7306, Box 2, Folder: Watson M. Perrygo Papers, Taxidermists

Contact information

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

Date

circa 1960

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Whales
  • Taxidermists
  • Bones
  • Exhibitions
  • Whale Bones
  • Skeleton
  • Exhibit Installation
  • Whale

Form/Genre

  • Exhibit
  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2008-2856

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 5w x 4h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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