Building Stones (Exhibit)
Dates
- Existence: 1913 - 1937
Historical Note
Abstract:
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1913 and closed 1937. Located on Floor 1, Section NC (North Corridor).
Summary
The Building Stones (Exhibit) at the American Museum of Natural History exhibited building stones of marble, sandstone, limestone, dolomite, quartzite, slate, granite, diabase, soapstone. Other exhibits illustrated the products derived from coal; minerals and ores from Broken Hill, Australia; a collection of gypsum; typical American and Manhattan Island rocks, local peat; and a varied assortment of marbles from Italy, Alaska, Canada, and the United States with large representations from New York and Vermont. The hall also included a large number of specimens representing various phases of general geology (1, 1935, p. 40-41). The Museum received the collection of building stones in 1886 (2, 1886, p. 12-13), which was previously displayed as the Jesup Collection of Building Stones in the east corridor of the first floor circa 1904 (GG 1904 p. 39). Sharing space with the Eskimo collection and meteorites on the first floor, the collection of building stones became part of the Hall of Petrology in 1937 (2, 1937, p.12).
REFERENCES
1) American Museum of Natural History. General Guide to [the Exhibition Halls of] the American Museum of Natural History. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1904-1935.
2) American Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1886-1937.
Information for the hall appears in the following Museum publications:
Annual Reports for year 1937 (page 12)
American Museum of Natural History General Guides for years 1913 (page 24-25); 1914 (page 25); 1919 (page 15); 1920 (page 15); 1921 (page 15); 1922 (page 15); 1923 (page 15); 1928 (page 21); 1929 (page 21); 1930 (page 21); 1931 (page 37); 1932 (page 37); 1933 (page 39); 1934 (page 39); 1935 (page 40-41); 1936 (page 40-41).
Alternate Name Forms
Outline:
- Uncontrolled name from AMNH publications (dates of use by year)
- Building Stones (1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936)
Places
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New York (N.Y.)
- Note: AMNH: Floor 1, Section NC (North Corridor)