American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Historical Fossil Fish Collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 140
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection are correspondence, records, notebooks, drawings, photos, illustrations, and maps that pertain to fossil fish reports of finds, distribution and cataloguing, descriptions and publications, private and museum collections, exchanges, purchases, gifts, and exhibitions activities. This collection originally belonged to the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, then in 1944 moved to the Department of Geology and Paleontology, which is now the Department of...
Dates:
1862-1980
Preparation Molds for Exhibits
Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents
Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1889-1990s