Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Media Photo Site

Media Photo Site

Historic Photos of Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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Carnegie Museum of Natural History under construction in 1907

ANDREW CARNEGIE

DIRECTORS, CURATORS, and STAFF

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. Mary Dawson, PhD, 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. Robert Leberman, PhD, Powdermill Nature Reserve; founded one of the longest running bird-banding programs in the country; http://www.powdermillarc.org.

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 environmental research center of the museum, in 1956 (www.carnegiemnh.org/powdermill)

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

DINOSAURS

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

4. Diplodocus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) in Dinosaur Hall, 1934; 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