Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Paleontology Hall
- Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology
- United States National Museum Vertebrate Paleontology Division
- Natural History Building
- Natural History Building Central Hall
- National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. #s 97-3049 and 2005-2999 for other views of the exhibits. For 1930s view of the hall see 33835-C.
- Summary
- View of the Vertebrate Paleontology Hall, also known as Dinosaur Hall, in the United States National Museum's (USNM) Natural History Building (NHB), now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). At the time of this picture the exhibit of fossil animals was called the "Hall of Extinct Monsters." Several dinosaur skeletons and other fossil animals are on exhibit. In this picture is the tail of the Sea-Living Mammal skeleton. Skeletons of various types of vertebrates are visible including the skeleton on the right of an Irish elk. A mural of "Diana of the Tides" can be seen on the rear wall.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 14
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1913
- Standard number
- 2005-3000
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Exhibit
- Cyanotype
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Cyanotype; Size:10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit Medium: Cyanotype
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Art objects
- Bones
- Diana of the Tides
- Dinosaurs
- Exhibitions
- Mammals
- Mural painting and decoration
- Painting
- Paleontology
- Paleontology Exhibit
- Paleontology, Vertebrate
- Skeleton
- Specimens
- Vertebrates
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11374
