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| Carnegie Museum of Natural History under construction in 1907 |
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| ANDREW CARNEGIE |
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| DIRECTORS, CURATORS, and STAFF |
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| 1. Dr. W.E. Clyde Todd, Curator of Ornithology 1919-1944, photo ca. 1966 as Honorary Curator of Birds' Eggs; published Needle to the North; Todd Sanctuary in Buffalo Township, Butler County, PA established in his honor |
| 2. Dr. Mary Dawson, Curator of Paleontology 1971-2003, photo ca. 1966; studying Prolagus skeleton |
| 3. Earl Douglass, Curator of Paleontology; discovered many of the earliest dinosaurs in the collection, including Diplodocus and Apatosaurus |
| 4. Dr. Robert Leberman, Powdermill Nature Reserve/Avian Research Center; founded one of the longest running bird-banding programs in the country; http://www.powdermill.org/avian.htm |
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| 5. Dr. W.J. Holland, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1896-1922, photo ca. 1900; Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh; published The Moth Book and The Butterfly Book; |
| 6. Dr. M. Graham Netting, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1954-1975, photo ca. 1966; founded Powdermill Nature Reserve, the biological research station of the museum, in 1956 (www.powdermill.org) |
| 7. Neil Richmond, Curator of Herpetology 1955-1971, Curator of Environmental Studies 1971-1979; at work in lab |
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| 8. Ruth Trimble, Assistant Curator of Ornithology, 1934-1940 |
| 9. David Seaman, Curator of Mineralogy and Geology, 1945-1949 |
| 10. Juan Parodiz, Curator of Invertebrates 1960-1980 |
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| 11. W.J. Holland working in the Holland Room, a collections area in Section of Invertebrate Zoology, early 1900s |
| 12. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Staff Photo, 1915 |
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| DINOSAURS |
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| 1. Packing fossils at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, early 1900s |
| 2. Diplodocus in Dinosaur Hall before addition of Apatosaurus, 1915 |
| 3. Welding tail support for Apatosaurus, 1915 |
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| 4. Diplodocus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) in Dinosaur Hall, ca. 1915; in this image, the skull of Camarasaurus has been mounted on Apatosaurus, a discrepancy that was redressed in 1979 when the long-missing skull of Apatosaurus was properly identified and mounted on the skeleton |
| 5. Schoolchildren in front of T. rex, ca. 1950s |
| 6. Children sketch their favorite dinosaurs while a carnivore looks on |
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| 7. Gallery of Paleontology, ca. 1907 |
| 8. Tinted postcard, ca. 1907 |
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| EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1. & 2. Taxidermists preparing giraffe (left) and mammal (right) dioramas, early 1900s |
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| 3. Gallery of Birds, ca. 1908 |
| 4. Gallery of Ethnology, ca. 1908 |
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| 5. Gallery of Mammals, ca. 1908 |
| 6. Gallery of Bronzes, ca. 1908 |
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| 7. Hall of Pottery |
| 8. Postcard, "Archaeological Exhibits" |