Image: The American Museum of Natural History - an introduction (1972) (17541974003)

Description: Title: The American Museum of Natural History : an introduction Identifier: ammuseintro00amer (find matches) Year: 1972 (1970s) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: American Museum of Natural History; Natural history museums Publisher: New York, N. Y. : American Museum of Natural History Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Park, which was its home until 1X77. In the intervening years the plans for the present site were developed. The eighteen acres of Manhattan Square were designated by New York City as the future home of the Museum. Calvert Vaux. one of the designers of Central Park, planned the Museum as a splendid castle m what was then a wilderness. Farms and swamps abounded; there were a tew inhabited shanties. Harlem was a tin) settlement to the north, and Stagecoaches were the only means of transportation to the Museum area. The cornerstone for the first unit of the new Museum was laid by President Grant in 1874. (For years no one knew where the cornerstone had been laid—it was finally found in 1968.) The Museum was formally opened in December 1877, when President Hayes and a group of distinguished citizens came to lavish opening ceremonies. The Museum grew—the second unit was finished in 1892, the entire 77th Street structure was completed by 1900, and sections were added throughout the 1900s. As the number of halls increased, so did the collections. The first major acquisition was a great collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians purchased from Prince Maximilian of Weid in 1869. The renowned fossil collec- tion of Professor James Hall was obtained in 1873. P. T. Barnum contributed an iguana and "one Human Hand." Other collections were bought or donated. The Museum began to look beyond Manhattan Square in its quest for President Grant laying the cornerstone of the Museum on June 2, 1874 (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper). Text Appearing After Image: ' Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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