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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