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Oligocene Titanotheres. A team of flesh-eating Hyaenodon hope to bring down a younger member of this herd of dust-raising Brontotherium.  But they had not expected the sudden charge of a protective bull.  Also shown is the tortoise (turtle) Stylemys. Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, originally installed in 1931. The painting is shown on the floor of Hall 38 Fossil Vertebrates before it was moved to the Life Over Time exhibit.
Oligocene Titanotheres
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  • CK12T
  • GE573
Early Land Plants: Devonian Forest Plants had covered the land by the middle of the Paleozoic era, 320 million years ago. Charles R. Knight painting or mural on the wall in Hall 38, above exhibit case "The History of a Fossil from Death to Discovery".
Early Land Plants
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  • CK49T
  • GE559
Miocene Plains Mammals, Cenozoic; Long-necked camel Oxydactylus, two-horned rhinoceros Menoceras, 3 (three) toed horse Parahippus, giant pig Dinohyus, Mammal with claws, curious Moropus. Charles R. Knight painting or mural.
Miocene Plains Mammals
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  • CK19TA
  • GE572
T. rex (tyrannosaurus) and Triceratops Mesozoic; This is unequivocally Knight's most influential work, the classic confrontation between the horned dinosaur and its deadly adversary. Charles Knight painting or mural.  RP (G-14).
T. rex and Triceratops
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  • CSGEO59442
  • GE567
Earliest Records of Earth Life found in Proterozoic era deposited sediments one and one half billion years ago. Fossils are believed to be lime secretions of minute single celled plants, similar to some of the algae that live in hot springs today. Pre-cambrian or precambrian; Charles Knight painting or mural installed circa 1928.
Earliest Records of Earth Life
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  • CSGEO63043
  • GE556
Earliest records of earth life found in Proterozoic era deposited sediments one and one half billion years ago.  Fossils are believed to be lime secretions of minute single celled plants, similar to some of the algae that live in hot springs today. Pre-cambrian or Precambrian; Charles Knight painting or mural installed circa 1928.
Earliest records of earth
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  • CK23AT
  • GE556
Giant Kangaroos and Wombats. Palorchestes and Diprotodon. Photographic print of a painting by Charles R. Knight, FM Negative No. 55562, the print is pinned to a board and is oriented sideways, there is a box of Hammer's Lantern Slide Plates underneath and a page from a calendar, April, to the right. Good illustration for how copy negatives were made.
Giant Kangaroos and Wombats
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  • CSGEO59237
  • GE581
Middle Devonian Forest Paleozoic. Restoration mural painting by Charles R. Knight.
Devonian Forest
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  • CSGEO73898
  • GE559
Woolly Mammoths and Rhinoceros Cenozoic. Early Man saw mammals known to us as fossils. Europe in Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. Charles Knight painting or mural. Painting.
Mural
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  • CK30T
  • GE577
Edmontosaurus Duck Bill dinosaur. Study painting for mural [preliminary drawing] by Charles R. Knight.
Edmontosaurus
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  • CSGEO66247
  • GE563
Whales of the Eocene Seas. Restoration of the primitive whale. Basilosaurus [Zeuglodon] Painting by Charles R. Knight 1925.
Painting
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  • CK26T
  • GE570
Teleoceras. Study painting [preliminary drawing] by Charles R. Knight.
Study painting
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  • CSGEO66714
  • GE574
Ground Sloths and Glyptodonts. Megatherium and Glyptodon. Middle Pleistocene period, Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural
Ground Sloths and Glyptodonts
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  • CK20T
  • GE575
Cave Bears, Ursus spelaeus, The Great Cave Bear of Europe. Cenozoic era. Painting by Charles R. Knight.
Cave Bears
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  • CSGEO71548
  • GE578
Giant Moas. Dinornis, Great extinct bird. Cenozoic Era. Close up of study sketch or painting on canvas signed by Charles R. Knight [Chas. R. Knight '27 [1927]].
Giant Moas
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  • CSGEO59008
  • GE582
Irish Deer (Elk?), Megaloceros. Cenozoic Charles R. Knight painting or mural. Knight's unsurpassed tribute to the magnificent Irish Deer Megaloceros, which possessed the most ponderous antlers of any known deer, their spread being an incredible eight or more feet.
Irish Deer
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  • CK1T
  • GE580
Pliocene Rhinoceros, Mastodonts, Oreodonts Cenozoic. Four-tusked mastodon Trilophodon (in the center), and the rhinoceros Teleoceras (on the left), which lived on the Great Plains of North America at the close of the Miocene period (about fifteen million years ago).  on the banks of a broad and shallow river near the close of the Miocene period, fifteen million years ago. The small animals at the right are oreodonts or contemporary pig-like animals. From a mural painting by Mr, Charles H. Knight. Pre-installation, Hall 38 windows visible in background
Pliocene Rhinoceros, Mastodonts, Oreodonts
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  • CSGEO72377
  • GE574
Preparing the educational television program "Down to Earth" with New Trier High School Students and Ernest Roscoe, Raymond Foundation with Mrs. Penny Kneipper, a sixth grade teacher in Wilmette. The Audio Visual [AV] project filmed with movie cameras, microphones and two student moderators.  Charles Knight murals in background, fossil exhibits in Hall 38.
Preparing educational television program
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  • GN81141_4
Preparing the educational television program "Down to Earth" with New Trier High School Students and Ernest Roscoe, Raymond Foundation with Mrs. Penny Kneipper, a sixth grade teacher in Wilmette. The Audio Visual [AV] project filmed with movie cameras, microphones and two student moderators.  Charles Knight murals in background, fossil exhibits in Hall 38.
Preparing educational television program
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  • GN81141_5
Giant Moas. Dinornis, Great extinct bird. Cenozoic Era. Close up of study sketch or painting on canvas signed by Charles R. Knight [Chas. R. Knight '27 [1927]] taken from a distance, whole background shows.
Giant Moas
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  • CSGEO59009
  • GE582