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Title
20. Design for the Smithsonian
Subject
- Museum exhibits
- Paleoart
- Paleontology
Description
A drawing of a museum exhibition design by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins for the Smithsonian Institution in 1871. This exhibition features three different mounted groups of animals, with the Irish elk on the left, the Moa on the right, and a large platform of multiple different dinosaurs and prehistoric animals in the center of many patrons observing the animals and the glass exhibit cases.
Creator
Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1894
Location Covered
Smithsonian Institution
Source
ANSP-Coll-0803, Box 1, Folder 1
Identifier
ansp-coll-0803no20_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.
