Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Greenwell, Frank M
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, May 1969
- Summary
- Frank M. Greenwell, National Museum of Natural History's Department of Vertebrate Zoology, standing with a skeleton of "Lexington," a renowned race horse, in a storage area of the museum.
- Greenwell joined the staff of the Smithsonian in 1957, and soon found himself part of the team that prepared the Fénykövi Elephant for exhibition. His work did not keep him solely in the taxidermy studio. Greenwell went on scientific expeditions all over the world-collecting everything from a tiny shrew to the skulls of twelve gray whales. Later, Greenwell found that he preferred to capture the natural world with a camera and developed his skills as a nature photographer.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: May 1969
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1969
- Standard number
- 94-1520
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Horses
- Race horses
- Museum storage facilities
- Storage
- Skeleton
- Taxidermists
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8700
