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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid, Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Landscape
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Texas
Date:
1957
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
Summary:
G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000), stands beside a Cholla cactus. Cooper is at Glass Mountains, Texas, where he was doing field work. Cooper, a paleobiologist specializing in the classification and stratigraphy of Paleozoic brachiopods, was appointed Assistant Curator in the Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology of the United States National Museum (USNM) in 1930. He advanced to Curator of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology in 1944. He assumed the Head Curatorship of the Department of Geology in 1957, oversaw its split in 1963, and continued as Chairman of the new Department of Paleobiology. In 1967, he was appointed Senior Paleobiologist, to devote his time completely to research, and continued as Paleobiologist Emeritus after his retirement in 1974.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9524, Box 1, G. Arthur Cooper Oral History Interviews
