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Exhibition Preparation - Based on scientific field work and research, Museum artists, preparators and taxidermists have worked to create permanent halls and special exhibits.

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Sister and Sammy Keith collecting tadpoles for Tra... 274855 Jul 08, 1931	Visitors from Boston studying exhibits to copy the... 274862 Jul 02, 1931	Regional Museum Directors meeting, Trailside Museum 274864 Jul 01, 1931	Museum staff cleaning elephant skin 280022 Jun 1933	Museum staff cleaning elephant skin 280023 Jun 1933

Museum staff mounting Rhinoceros and Indian Elephant 281095 Feb 1934	Museum staff painting background and mounting anim... 281096 Feb 1934	Preparing African Buffalo Group 281097 Feb 1934	Wooden framework, first stage for mounting elephant 282213 Jun 1934	Museum staff mounting Elephant, Fifth Floor Prepar... 283076 Mar 1935

Museum staff preparing African Lion Group 283077 Mar 1935	Museum staff moving Brontosaurus skeleton 289651 Jun 1938	Museum staff moving Brontosaurus skeleton 290403 Aug 1938	Museum staff moving Brontosaurus skeleton 290404 Aug 1938	Armin Schmidt inserting tow body into skin for mou... 291065 Feb 1939

Mr. Armin Schmidt closing skin over the tow body f... 291066 Feb 1939	Raymond B. Potter prepares birds for mounting 291067 Feb 1939	Mr. Christensen applies skin of a roan antelope to... 291071 Feb 1939	Paul Wright working on sketch model of American Bi... 291072 Feb 1939	Posed Grizzly Bear attack during construction of G... 296899 1941

Glass blower Herman O. Mueller and photographer Ch... 296922 Oct 1942	Fred Scherer installing Birds of Paradise Group 298477 Feb 1945	Scherer and Tornell preparing Birds of Paradise Group 298478 Feb 1945	Mr. Potter mounting Bird of Paradise 298479 Feb 1945	Mounting Birds of Paradise 298481 Feb 1945

Raymond Potter mounting Birds of Paradise 298484 Feb 1945	George Adams mounting "Raffles", the talking crow 299096 Nov 1946	Stage 13 of mounting a skeleton 299192 1945	Positioning of Timber Wolf skeleton for mounting 299479 Oct 1947	Plaster of paris applied to Timber Wolf skeleton i... 299481 Oct 1947

Modeling and mounting process of Timber Wolf 299484 Oct 1947	Mounting and modeling process of Timber Wolf 299485 Oct 1947	Mold for mounting Timber Wolf model completed 299486 Oct 1947	Mold for mounting Timber Wolf model completed 299486 Oct 1947	Mold for mounting Timber Wolf model completed 299486 Oct 1947

Completed paper manikin for Timber Wolf mounting 299491 Dec 1947	Mounting of Timber Wolf completed and ready for in... 299494 Dec 1947	Taxidermist George Adams constructing Moa, Moa con... 2A2571 May 1951	Taxidermist George Adams constructing Moa foundati... 2A2583 Jun 1951	Taxidermist George Adams constructing Moa foundati... 2A2584 Jun 1951

Taxidermist George Adams constructing Moa, Moa con... 2A2588 Mar 1952	Construction of Moa, Moa construction series 2A2589 Apr 1952	Taxidermist George Adams constructing Moa, Moa con... 2A2590 Apr 1952	Completed taxidermy of Moa, Moa construction series 2A2591 Apr 1952	Museum staff installing Sauropod Dinosaur tracks f... 2A2689 Apr 1952

Museum staff installing Sauropod Dinosaur tracks f... 2A2690 Apr 1952	Museum staff installing Sauropod Dinosaur tracks f... 2A3076 1952	Museum staff applying base for installation of Sau... 2A3077 1952	Group viewing installation of Sauropod Dinosaur tr... 2A3078 1952	Kalmenoff working from photographs on charcoal ske... 2A7110 1961

Photographs and charcoal sketch of background for ... 2A7112 1961	Construction of display for Bald Eagle Group, Bird... 2A7115 1961	Constructing floor of Bald Eagle Group, Bird Hall 2A7116 1961	Construction of Bald Eagle Group, Hall of North Am... 2A7117 1961	Constructing floor of Bald Eagle Group, Bird Hall 2A7118 1961

Museum staff constructing foreground for Bald Eagl... 2A7120 1961	Installation of Bald Eagle Group, Bird Hall 2A7133 1962	Final installation, Weaver Bird Exhibit, Biology o... 2A7452 Unknown	Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9902 Mar 1969	Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9903 Mar 1969

Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9904 Mar 1969	Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9905 Mar 1969	Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9906 Mar 1969	Construction of Man and His Changing World Exhibit... 2A9907 Mar 1969	Film storage, editing room, School Service 2A9910 1968

Making clay mold for Hippopotomus model 14536 1909	Making mold to cast clay model of Titanotherium 17352 1914	Museum staff mounting Brontosaurus skeleton foreli... 17506 May 1904	Museum staff mounting Brontosaurus skeleton foreli... 17506 May 1904	Museum staff mounting Brontosaurus forelimb 17507 May 1904

Start of Indian Lion clay model 120395 1930	Mr. Clark working on clay model of Indian Lion 120396 1930	Mr. Clark fitting animal skin on clay model of Ind... 120397 1930	Mr. Clark fitting animal skin on clay model of Ind... 120398 1930	Aplying plaster mold to clay model of Indian Lion 120401 1930

Completed mold of Indian Lion 120402 1930	Completed mold of Indian Lion 120403 1930	Mold being removed from clay model of Indian Lion 120404 1930