Based on scientific field work and research, Museum artists, preparators and taxidermists have worked to create permanent halls and special exhibits. Here are photos of exhibition preparation in American Museum of Natural History from between the 1930s and 1940s.
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| Museum staff cleaning elephant skin |
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| Museum staff cleaning elephant skin |
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| Museum staff mounting Rhinoceros and Indian Elephant |
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| Preparing African Buffalo Group |
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| Wooden framework, first stage for mounting elephant |
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| Museum staff mounting Elephant, Fifth Floor Preparation |
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| Museum staff moving Brontosaurus skeleton |
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| Posed Grizzly Bear attack during construction of Grizzly Bear Group |
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| Glass blower Herman O. Mueller and photographer Charles H. Coles, photographing radiolarian |
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| Museum staff painting background and mounting animals for Tiger Group, Asian Hall |
