C. Lewis Gazin with Eremotherium, a giant ground sloth

ID: SIA2013-03934

Creator: Sandved, Kjell Bloch 1922-

Form/Genre: Person, candid

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

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Summary

In the Hall of Dinosaurs in the National Museum of Natural History, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Gazin (1904-1995) of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology stands to the left of a Eremotherium (giant ground sloth) skeleton and holds in his right hand a piece of paper and pen.

Subject

  • Gazin, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis)
  • Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
  • National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • United States National Museum
  • Dinosaurs, Past and Present (Exhibition) (1987: National Museum of Natural History)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
  • C. Lewis Gazin was named Assistant Curator in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1932. Ten years later, in 1942, he became Associate Curator and in 1946, a Curator of the Division. In 1948, he served on a Sub-Committee on Exhibits Modernization to produce a report outlining a program to update the exhibitions in the United States National Museum. He was named Senior Paleobiologist in 1967, and when his retirement came in 1970, he was given the title of Paleobiologist Emeritus. Twelve years later in 1982 he became a Curator Emeritus. He wrote ninety-nine works on vertebrate paleontology, most of which were focused on mammalian paleontology. Gazin led field expeditions almost every summer between 1934 and 1969.
  • For other images of C. Lewis Gazin, see negative numbers SIA2013-03935 and SIA2013-03936.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

Contact information

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

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Dinosaurs
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Paleontology
  • Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit
  • Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Paleontologists
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Specimens
  • Bones
  • Exhibitions
  • Skeleton
  • Museum curators
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Person, candid
  • Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03934

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 1w X 1 3.7h ; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Slide

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