Behind These Doors: Science Museum MakersDescribes the development of a science museum collection, how specimens are acquired and preserved, how an exhibit is prepared, and opportunities for a career in museum work. |
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... elephant ever captured , after spending many years in the London Zoo , had become the trademark of Barnum's circus . The evening perform- ance was over , and the other elephants had been loaded on the waiting train when Jumbo and a baby ...
... elephant ever captured , after spending many years in the London Zoo , had become the trademark of Barnum's circus . The evening perform- ance was over , and the other elephants had been loaded on the waiting train when Jumbo and a baby ...
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Science Museum Makers Margery Facklam. An elephant skin is swept and cleaned before it is mounted on a manikin . The building of an elephant is one of the most dra- matic things a taxidermist ever gets to do . It is a job that takes much ...
Science Museum Makers Margery Facklam. An elephant skin is swept and cleaned before it is mounted on a manikin . The building of an elephant is one of the most dra- matic things a taxidermist ever gets to do . It is a job that takes much ...
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... elephant or a thirty - foot dinosaur , given to or collected by a museum , creates the need to design a complete display . If an expedition finds the burial site of an ancient race of men , the museum will surely plan an exhibit using ...
... elephant or a thirty - foot dinosaur , given to or collected by a museum , creates the need to design a complete display . If an expedition finds the burial site of an ancient race of men , the museum will surely plan an exhibit using ...
Contents
The Museum Makers | 9 |
Henry Ward Museum Supplier | 20 |
Early Taxidermy | 31 |
Copyright | |
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African Hall Akeley's Allosaurus American Museum ancient armature artists background painter barn swallows bird flight bones Brontosaurus building called Carl Akeley carrot cast catalog circus clay cleaned coat collection collector color commercial supply house curator dinosaur dinosaur skeleton director display dried eggs elephant expedition feathers feet Field Museum fish flowers fossils geologists giant gorilla habitat group Henry Ward Hornaday human skeleton Indian insects Jumbo jungle latex leaves life-size lifelike light look Louis Agassiz mammals manikin meteorites method mold mounted animals mounting birds Museum Makers Museum of Natural natural history museum ornithologist P. T. Barnum paleontology papier-mâché Peary photographs plants plaster plastic preparators reptiles Rochester rock Roy Chapman Andrews saber-toothed cat Science Museum scientific scientists seum sketches skin skull Smithsonian Institution specimens staff stuffed taxidermists taxidermy things tion train visitors wire York