Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States National Museum
- South-East Range of the United States National Museum
- Comparative Anatomy (Exhibition)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- In the Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy Exhibit (Osteological Hall) from the 1880's in the South-East Range of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, are skeletons of mammals, marine mammals and a giant sloth (Megatherium). Some skeletons are in exhibit cases and others are hanging from the ceiling.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 14
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1882
- Standard number
- MNH-4318.tif
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Bones
- Exhibitions
- Fossils
- Giant sloth
- Mammals
- Marine mammals
- Megatherium
- Museum buildings
- Natural history
- Skeleton
- Specimens
- Museum exhibits
- Paleontology
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9937
