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The Life and Times of Carl Akeley: The Man Behind the Hall (Exhibition)
birth: 1973 April 24
death: 1973 September 3
Exhibition. Opened April 24, 1973 and closed September 3, 1973. Located on Floor 2 in the African Corridor at the American Museum of Natural History. The Life and Times of Carl Akeley: The Man Behind the Hall explored Akeley's methods for creating the dioramas in the Museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals and included slides, photographs, a film, and some of Akeley's original material.
Summary
The Life and Times of Carl Akeley: The Man Behind the Hall covered Akeley's career and explored methods for creating the dioramas in the Museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals and included slides, photographs, a film, and some of Akeley's original material. The exhibition featured an area covering Akeley's methods of creating molds for artificial leaves and coating artificial rocks, his plaster casts of gorilla heads, photographs of Akeley, paintings by Robert Kane and Arthur Jansson, material from Akeley's African field trips, and an example of a wide-arc camera he invented (1; 3, p. 1).
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