Vertebrate Exhibit, Conference on Future of SI

Summary

Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit at the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, February 11, 1927, with Charles W. Gilmore, paleontologist and curator, sitting in front of a display panel entitled "Studies in Vertebrate Paleontology". The picture is of a "Dinosaur Quarry near Jensen, Utah." There are two renderings showing what the diplodocus dinosaur skeleton would look like, and between the pictures is a model labeled "Model in Miniature of Diplodocus" dinosaur. On either side are large dinosaur bones with the one on the left labeled a "Shoulder Blade." At the bottom center of the display is a block of sandstone showing diplodocus neck bones partly uncovered. Mineral samples and a microscope are on a table behind Gilmore. Also behind Gilmore are several panels. The top left panel is labeled "Rockweathering and Soil Formation" and the top right panel is labeled "Studies in Mineral Genesis". Below the picture on the left, another label reads "Rockweathering and Soil Formation."

Subject

• Gilmore, Charles W
• Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution
• United States National Museum Dept. of Geology
• National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See negative # 17881-K for similar image of a standing Charles W. Gilmore.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 46, Box 32, folder - Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Conference Exhibits (including photographs of curators and assistant curators formally posed with department exhibits)

Contact information

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

Date

• February 11, 1927
• 1927

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

• Curators
• Dinosaurs
• Employees
• Museums
• Paleontology
• Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Paleontologists
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Exhibitions
• Bones
• National Collections
• Microscopes
• Museum curators
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid
• Exhibit

ID Number

17883-B or MNH-17883B

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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