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American Museum of Natural History (1869-:)

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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from S.H Chubb, 27 January 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/5
Scope and Contents

Chubb writes that he is now able to supply a negative and measurements of the Shetland pony. He judges the growth of the pony's skull to be abnormally underdeveloped, and wonders if Ewart can supply the date of the pony's birth.

Dates: 27 January 1913

Restoration of the Four-Toed Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3116
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Skeleton of Prehistoric Horse from Lower Pleistocene of Texas, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3118
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Evolution of the Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1917
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Size of the Eohippus or "Dawn Horse", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3124
Scope and Contents

Photograph (lower) of the 'only known skeleton of the Eohippus or "dawn horse" as preserved in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA compared to a photograph (upper) of a skeleton of an English coursing hound, the whippet to show the similarity in body size.

Dates: 1870s-1930s