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AMNH: Floor 1, Section 5.
Construction for the Hall of North American Forests began on November 1, 1948. The halls were originally planned as a trio that included a Botany Hall, which was never built (1, 1948/49, p. [11]). The Hall of North American Forests were intended to have explanatory, instructive exhibits as well as dramatic, aesthetically-pleasing habitat dioramas (1, 1957/58, p. 9).
At the opening of the hall, the exhibits included Maple Syrup-Making in the Catskills 1870, The Vegetation of Middle North America (map), The Forest River-Bottom to Hilltop (mural), Fire in the Forest, How Nature Harvests the Forest, Forest Tree Diseases, Forest Insects, How Man Harvests the Forest, Forest Protection, Multiple Use of Forest Lands, How We Use Our Timber, Forest Soils, and Weather in the Forest (2, 1958, p. 220-23).
The highlights of the hall include an enlarged model of the Anopheles Mosquito, originally exhibited in the Hall of Public Health and Life of the Forest Floor, a display case 24-times enlarged with a giant millipede, earthworm, daddy longlegs, and carpenter ant. This hall also houses the Big Tree or Giant Sequoia, a section of the Mark Twain Tree, which began growing around A.D. 550 and was cut down in 1891 in the Big Stump Basin in Kings Canyon National Park. The section weighs 9 tons and has 1,342 annual rings with markers for major historical events (2, 1958, p. 220-232; 3, 1993, p. 26; 3, 2001, p. 51; 4).
The forest habitat dioramas are as follows:
Early October in Southern New Hampshire
Giant Cactus Forest
Jeffery Pine Forest
Mixed Deciduous Forest
Northern Spruce-Fir Forest
Oak Hickory Forest
Olympic Forest
Pinyon-Juniper Forest
Southeastern Coastal Plain Forest
Timberline in the Northern Rocky Mountains (5, 2006, p. 168)
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Scientific artist, worked on exhibits in hall.
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama background artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama background artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama background artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama taxidermist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Diorama foreground artist (5, 2006, p. 168).
Curated digital images of permanent halls in the American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital Special Collections.