Dinosaurs in the Attic (22 page)

17. Henry Fairfield Osborn, the father of American paleontology.

18. Barnum Brown's dinosaur hunting houseboat, at a camp on the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada, 1912.

19. Dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown among Lower Belly River rocks near Sweetwater, Montana, 1914. Even in the field, Brown was always immaculately dressed.

20. One dinosaur skeleton, as it appears before the fragments are assembled, cemented, and mounted. Barnum Brown (with bow tie) is in the background center.

21. Assembling the great skeleton of
Tyrannosaurus rex
in the Hall of Late Dinosaurs, 1915.

22. Carl Akeley puts the finishing touches on the clay model for the big bull elephant in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, 1914.

23. Carl Akeley at the edge of a volcano in the Belgian Congo, filming with the camera he invented, c. 1920s.

24. Carl Akeley after being attacked by an elephant, in the bush in Kenya.

25. An example of an early Museum hall: the Morgan Hall of Minerals and Gems, 1922.

26. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Central Asiatic Expedition, in Mongolia  (1928).

27. The expedition just outside the Great Wall of China at Wan Chuan Hsien, 1928. Lined up behind the expedition is the Chinese cavalry escort that protected the expedition from marauding soldiers and bandits in Inner Mongolia.

28. The supply caravan of camels for the Central Asiatic Expedition crossing the dunes of Tsagan Nor. Tserin, the Mongolian guide, heads the caravan (1925).

29. The Central Asiatic Expedition attempted to cross an apparently dry lake, but broke through the crust. Mongolia, 1928.