American Museum of Natural History (1869-:)
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Draught Horses in Action, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a team of draught horses pulling a plough driven by one man while another works to remove rock and soil from one of the American Museum [of Natural History?] quarries in central Wyoming in the early/mid 20th century.
Increase in Size of the Horse, 1870s-1930s
Photographs of horse skeletons showing the increase in size of the horse over time. The image shows a small articulated skeleton of the Eohippus, placed beneath the limbs of the original American horse or Equus scotti as mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA with a scale next to them showing the progressive increase in size.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 October 1916
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 15 October 1919
Osborn writes that he is still working on developing the horse collection at the Museum and preparing his memoir on the Evolution of the Horse. He hears from Director Hornaday that the Scandinavian and Celtic ponies will have to be disposed of as they are eating too much. He once again requests the skeleton and skin of the original Celtic pony to be sent to him.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 02 February 1921
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 February 1896
Osborn, writing from the American Museum of Natural History, expresses interest in Ewart's work on telegony and the embryology of the horse. He mentions that he is also sending Ewart papers about the ancestral history of the horse.
Restoration of the Four-Toed Horse, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a watercolour painting by C R Knight of a restoration of the four-toed horse based on a skeleton sixteen inches high in the American Museum of Natural History in [New York] in the early 20th century.
Skeleton of Prehistoric Horse from Lower Pleistocene of Texas, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of an articulated skeleton of a prehistoric horse from the Lower Pleistocene in Texas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA in the early/mid 20th century.
The Evolution of the Horse, 1870s-1930s
Diagram showing the evolution of the horse showing the geological section in which the horses occur, the increase in the size of the skull, the number of toes and the differences in teeth prepared by Dr. William D Matthew from the collection at the American Museum of Natural History in the early/mid 20th century.
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