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Author:
Clark, Chip  Search this
Subject:
Springer, Victor Gruschka 1928-  Search this
Ray, Clayton Edward  Search this
Purdy, Robert W  Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Date:
1985
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in TORCH, October 1985
Summary:
A fiberglass reconstruction of the jaws of an extinct 40-foot long shark, bearing one row of real fossil teeth in the front and several rows of plastic replica teeth behind, for National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Fossils: The History of Life." Pictured (in front) is Walter Houck, Exhibits Central Graphics Production Lab; (left to right) Clayton Ray, MNH paleontologist; Walter Sorrell and Mike Freillo, GPL, Ian MacIntyre, Deb Bennet and Robert Purdy, MNH paleontolgists.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: October 1985
Contact information:
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Topic:
National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.)  Search this
Houck, Walter  Search this
Emery, Robert  Search this
Bennett, Deb  Search this
Macintyre, Ian  Search this
Office of Exhibits Central  Search this
Paleontology  Search this
Fossil Vertebrates  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Sharks, Fossil  Search this
Models and modelmaking  Search this
Jaws  Search this
Standard number:
97-9597
Restrictions & Rights:
No restrictions
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_8945