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National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Interior
Date:
c. 1915?
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
For another picture of this room and the Plesiosaurs see neg # 4886-B. This print is reproduced in USNM Bulletin 80, Plate 14, following page 104. * There are many other photographs of the NMNH in this location, as well as throughout RU79, Box 9.
Summary:
The Vertebrate Paleontology storage and work area in the National Museum of Natural History. There are fossils on tables in the room and three men are working on objects. On the rear wall is a fossil of a Plesiosaurs, an aquatic reptile from the end of the Triassic period (220 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1A
