Dinosaurs in the Attic (21 page)

4. The first Museum building, standing in a wasteland of undrained ponds, and piles of rock (1878).

5. The Museum's first building on Manhattan Square (c. 1880). This photograph was taken from the rooftop of the newly built Dakota apartment building. Note the squatters' shanties in the middleground.

6. Albert S. Bickmore's official portrait, photographed on May 11, 1908. Bickmore was the founder of Museum.

7. The completed first building in what was to become the 77th Street facade, 1893.

8. The Maritime Koryak tribe of Siberia, photographed on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (c. 1900). The central post served as a ladder. The interior of the house is entirely coated with thick, greasy soot.

9. The Ahnighito meteorite on the shore of Melville Bay in Greenland, about to be slid across rails greased with tallow to Robert E. Peary's ship, J897.

10. Unloading the Ahnighito meteorite at the 50th Street pier, Manhattan, around the turn of the century.

11. Automobile used to deliver collections to various schools for teaching purposes, 1908.

12. The Museum Taxidermy and Exhibition Department in 1905.

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The Crocker Land Expedition with their dog teams crossing a mountain on an island north of Greenland (1915).

14. A
Diplodocus
limb, the first discovery at Bone Cabin Quarry. The bones, fossilized remnants from an ancient Jurassic river bar, rested on and Just beneath the surface.

15. The
Diplodocus
limb as shown on the Bone Cabin Quarry map.

16. The first step in mounting a dinosaur skeleton is the construction of the metal framework. Shown here in a 1908 photograph is a trachodont mount.