Coopers in Paleontology Lab

Summary

G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000) and his wife, Josephine Cooper, are at work in his office in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, in June of 1954. Specimens of fossil brachiopods can be seen on the desk as well as where his wife is working by the window.

Subject

• Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) 1902-
• Cooper, Josephine (Mrs. G. Arthur)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• United States National Museum Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany
• United States National Museum Dept. of Geology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology Division of Invertebrate Paleontology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of G. Arthur Cooper Interview by Pamela M. Henson, January 12, 1984, in Smithsonian Institution Archives. Calendar on wall reads June 1954.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9524 G. Arthur Cooper Oral History Inverviews

Contact information

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

Date

1954

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Geology
• Laboratories
• Paleoontology
• Employees
• Museums
• Office equipment and supplies
• History
• Fossils
• Paleobiologists
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Brachiopods
• Specimens
• Volunteer workers in museums
• Volunteers
• Museum curators
• Paleobiology
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Women--History

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

85-4051

Physical description

Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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