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Mammal skin (verify if common eland, Taurotragus oryx), close up of specimen.
Mammal
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  • CSZ19907

Carl Akeleys Four Seasons
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  • 151

Painting the Diorama
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  • 309

Carl Akeley's Striped Hyenas
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  • 310
ELEFINT.  Or, how do you taxidermy an elephant?    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop   The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by:  Emily Graslie   Created By:  Hank Green   Directed, Edited, Animated, and Scored by:  Michael Aranda   Production Assistant:  Katie Kirby   Filmed on Location and Supported by:  The Field Museum in Chicago, IL  (http://www.fieldmuseum.org)   Photo Credits:   Trees, mountains, water, scenery. Lake Elementeita, small lake west of the Aberdare Range, where Carl E. Akeley shot one of the elephants.:© The Field Museum, CSZ20136, Photographer Carl Akeley.   http://io9.com/the-woman-who-shot-ele...   Several men from Safari walking down from the mountain and are carrying collections including tusks and skulls of the Elephants: © The Field Museum, CSZ20242, Photographer Carl Akeley.   [about 20 men] Porters carrying Elephant skull and tusks with dense jungle in the background. They are making their way down from the mountain.: © The Field Museum, CSZ20253, Photographer Carl Akeley.   Skull and 2 tusks of old bull Elephant (of Museum group) shot by Mrs. Delia Akeley: © The Field Museum, CSZ20004, Photographer Carl Akeley.   Image of the elephants in armature © AMNH Negative Logbook 16 410833 - American Museum of Natural History   Carl Akeley creating model of Bull Elephant for Elephant group © American Museum of Natural History, 330591   African Elephants Group (Loxodonta africana Proboscidea Elephantidae) front view. Security guard in uniform stands on left side. Background shows the columns that have been draped with large white sheets. White plaster miniature sculpture from Agriculture Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. Shows "Harvest" a Chariot sculpture group for Colonnade by Mr. M. A. Waagen. Columbian Rotunda of Field Columbian Museum, Jackson Park. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley: © The Field Museum, CSZ29277_A, Photographer Charles Carpenter.   Lowell Shapley!: http://gulfcoastwaterfowl.com/   Thanks to Enrico Cioni, Katerina Idrik, Tony Chu, Barbara Velázquez, and Seth Bergenholtz for the awesome translated captions!
Carl Akeleys Fighting African Elephants
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  • 152
Several men with giraffe specimen (Height 17 feet) Zoology mammals cat no. 34930 Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi Carl Akeley collector, (probably April 1906)
Several men with giraffe
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  • CSZ23758
  • 34930
Young cheetah (?) growling at camera, teeth bared.
Young cheetah
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  • CSZ5920
Fighting African Elephants in Stanley Field Hall. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley . 41411 is on the left with two tusks and its trunk is raised. 41410 is on the right, with one tusk.
Elephants
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  • GN83723
  • 41410 | 41411
African Elephants, two (Elephas africanus peeli. Lydekker) on platform shown in Columbian Rotunda of Field Columbian Museum, Jackson Park. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley. 41411 is on the left with two tusks and its trunk is raised. 41410 is on the right, with one tusk.
African Elephants
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  • CSZ29270
  • 41410 | 41411
Edward Dodson and workers. 2 Somali men holding rifles with freshly killed lion.
Edward Dodson and workers
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  • CSZ5964
  • 1443
Edward Dodson's workers. 2 Somali men holding rifles with freshly killed lion.
Edward Dodson's workers
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  • CSZ5964c
  • 1443
Carl Akeley’s Fighting African Elephants on display inside Stanley Field Hall. These animals, collected and mounted by noted taxidermist Carl Akeley, were first exhibited in the central rotunda of the Field Museum’s former home in Jackson Park. In 1920 both elephants were transported by train to the new Field Museum building and installed in Stanley Field Hall, where they remain to this day.
Carl Akeley’s Fighting
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  • TN46
View from 2nd floor down into Stanley Field Hall. Preparators Orville Gilpin and unidentified, in the Gorgosaurus" pen. Preparation progress of the skeleton (now Albertosaurus) and Lambeosaurus.  [see Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus] Includes laders, carts, 2 skeletons, Carl Akeley bronze Lion Spearing sculptures in background.
Gorgosaurus
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  • GEO81687
  • PR308
Warthog group diorama by Carl Akeley. Phacochoerus aethiopicus.  Hall 22 Case 31. 5 adults, young.
Warthog
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  • CSZ62831
  • FMNH1290 |FMNH1291 | FMNH1292 | FMNH1293 | FMNH1294 | FMNH1295
African [Cape] Buffalo group diorama with plant accessories by Carl Akeley. Syncerus caffer; Hall 22 Case 40; 4 adults, 1 young Zoology specimen 21148
African Buffalo
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  • CSZ62832
  • 21148
Beisa Antelope Oryx gazella group diorama. Plant shrubs and rock accessories. Hall 22. African Mammals, Taxidermy by Carl Akeley. Zoology specimen 1400
Beisa Antelope
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  • CSZ62837
  • 1400
Orangutan diorama, Pongo pygmaeus Hall 17. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley. Reinstallation and background painting by Leon L. Pray.
Orangutan diorama
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  • CSZ77753
Detail of Orangutan diorama, mother and baby in tree, Pongo pygmaeus Hall 17 Taxidermy by Carl Akeley. Reinstallation and background painting by Leon L. Pray.
Orangutan diorama
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  • CSZ77754
Hippopotamus in Stanley Field Hall, for Carl E. Akeley Memorial Hall (22).  The skin of the hippopotomus cannot be preserved satisfactorily by ordinary methods.  In this specimen, the animal has been reproduced in cellulose-acetate, a material resembling celluloid.  The process is one developed by L. L. Walters of the Museum's staff. [postcard caption]
Hippopotamus
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  • PCZ1433
  • 22367
Cheetah [Hunting Leopard] Group diorama. Somaliland, Africa Mounts by Carl Akeley, taxidermist. Hall 22.
Cheetah
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  • CSZ76368