Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and giant ground sloth, ca.1920

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Title Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and giant ground sloth, ca.1920

Description Interiors of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and a giant ground sloth ("from Rancho La Brea"), ca.1920. The two prehistoric skeletons, displayed on platforms, are made to look as if they are in motion. Tables nearby offer a view of prehistoric artifacts. Glass tops protect the artifacts. Throughout the room are a variety of bird figures (birds models?). At the top of the left wall are two sets of horns with labels describing them.; "American mastodons (Mammut americanum) stood about seven feet tall at the shoulder. They ate a variety of soft vegetation such as leaves and pine needles. Although they looked superficially similar, mastodons were only distantly related to mammoths and elephants." -- unknown author.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1920

Subject Animals -- Prehistoric (file heading), Animals, Fossil (lcsh), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (subject), museum buildings (adlf), Museums (lcsh), Skeletons (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9677

Identifier 5699 (accession number), CHS-5699 (call number), CHS-5699 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9926 (legacy record id), chs-m9677 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9816 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9926

Unique identifier UC139884

Legacy Identifier CHS-5699.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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