Subject
- Paleontology
- Museum exhibits
- Paleoart
Description
A print of a museum gallery or hall design as drafted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins for the Smithsonian Institution in 1871 split up into two different pages. This hall features various background exhibits of Indigenous peoples and, from left to right, an elephant labeled "Mastodon ohioticus", a skeletal recreation of a mammoth visibly labeled as "Mammoth primigenius", a skeletal recreation of a moa, and a group of three moas standing upon a rock formation.
Creator
Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1894
Location Covered
Smithsonian Institution
Source
ANSP-Coll-0803, Box 1, Folder 1
Identifier
ansp-coll-0803no21a_001
Notes
Cataloging and digitizing made possible by The Getty Grant Program.
Relation
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album
Contributing Institution
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
