Photograph Album 8, 1940-1950

Item — Box: 9 (Oversize)

Identifier: FC-013- Item FC-013-OS-009-8

George F. Sternberg Album #8

Scope and Contents

This photo album documents fossil dig sites and related activities in Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Images focus on landscape features, people, dig sites and excavations, camp sites, tents, horseback riding, cooking, automobiles, and entertainment.

Several images feature the Augustana College Museum in Rock Island, Illinois. Specimens are shown in in glass display cases typical of the period.

Photographs featuring Hays include black and white images of paintings by Bill Eastman from the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. Lifelike models and paintings represent early efforts in paleontology to bring historic creatures to life. Several formal photographs of George F. Sternberg, L.D. Wooster, and Museum Secretary Alice Slagle are in the back of the volume.

Dates

Creation: 1940-1950

Creator

From the Collection: Sternberg, George Fryer (George F. Sternberg), 1883-1969 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Photo albums in Series IV are fragile and must be handled with assistance from Special Collections and University Archives personnel. Digital facsimilies are available in the FHSU Scholars Repository.