Image: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and giant ground sloth, ca.1920 (CHS-5699)

Description: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and giant ground sloth, ca.1920 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. Call number: CHS-5699 Filename: CHS-5699 Coverage date: 1920 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 5699 Microfiche number: 1-63- Archival file: chs_Volume69/CHS-5699.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): museum buildings Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: 1920 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Animals -- Prehistoric Legacy record ID: chs-m9677; USC-1-1-1-9816 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles Subject (lcsh): Museums; Skeletons; Animals, Fossil Subject: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Title: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, a mastodon and giant ground sloth, ca.1920 (CHS-5699)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/9926
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