Creator::

United States National Museum. Department of Geology  Search this

Extent:

2.74 cu. ft. (3 document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 5x8 box) (3 3x5 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass negatives

Lantern slides

Place:

Burgess Shale (B.C.)

Date:

circa 1909-1924

Descriptive Entry:

This accession consists of glass plate negatives of specimens from the Burgess Shale in the Rocky Mountains, near Field, British Columbia, Canada, collected by Charles D. Walcott, fourth Smithsonian Secretary. Materials include glass negatives of fossilized remains embedded in shale slabs and illustrations used in publications, as well as lantern slides used to illustrate lectures. Many of the negatives appear to be original photographs possibly created by the Institution's photographer T. W. Smillie.

Topic:

Formations (Geology) -- British Columbia  Search this

Geology, Stratigraphic  Search this

Fossils  Search this

Paleobiology  Search this

Wild flowers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Glass negatives

Lantern slides

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-086, United States National Museum. Department of Geology, Field Research Photographs

Identifier:

Accession 02-086

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Field Research Photographs

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-fa02-086