Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Natural History Building
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. #229471 for similar view with a Museum employee.
- Summary
- The skeleton of an American Mastodon with long tusks stands in the Paleontology Hall of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1917. The American Mastodons occupied woodland areas of North American from coast to coast and from Alaska to central Mexico, but are now extinct. At the time of this picture the exhibit was called the "Hall of Extinct Monsters."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 13
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1917
- Standard number
- 29475 or NHB-29475
- 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
- Paleontology
- Skeleton
- Bones
- Mammals
- Mammals, Fossils
- Mastodon
- American Mastodon
- Exhibitions
- Hall of Extinct Monsters
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10581
