This is Throwback Thursday #68. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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Back in Throwback Thursday #13, we visited the Field Museum Photo Archive blog over on Tumbler. There haven't been any new posts since 2015, but there is still a bunch of good material... have a look sometime! Until then, here are a few old photos to enjoy!
Fossil Friday, fossil dig.... I wonder if this is the Megatherium in Evolving Planet?
At the site of Megatherium excavation Expedition member (Riggs or Thorne) at the site of Megatherium excavation. Includes fossils and bottles inside cave. Bank of Rio Quequen, Salado. Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1927.
Name of Expedition: 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs (Leader and Photographer),Robert C. Thorne (Collector), Rudolf Stahlecker (Collector), Felipe Mendez
Expedition Start Date: April 1926
Expedition End Date: November 1926
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Collecting
Location: South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Quequen
Original material: 5x7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSGEO69647
Fossil Friday, insect wind. Check out the amazing amount of detail in this fossil wing.
© The Field Museum, GEO81481.
Fossil insect wing. 5x7 negative 12/14/1954
Throw back to when the Elephants reigned over Stanley Field Hall. But note the man in the center planning the future Albertosaurus installation.
© The Field Museum, GEO81595.
Gorgosaurus Albertosaurus: Order: Saurischia Family: Tyrannosauridae Old Family: Deinodontidae. Progress of assembly or construction of Late Cretaceous fossil skeleton. Stanley Field Hall. [see Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus].
8x10 negative 1/18/1956
We are breaking in to your regularly scheduled photo archives Tumblr to bring you this breaking news:
Blackhawks Fever has hit the Field Museum!
© The Field Museum, GN91892_275d, Photographer Karen Bean.
The Stanley Cup visits FM, SFH (appears as if Sue is drinking from the Cup).
4288 x 2848 pixels 10/12/2013
Fossil Friday, fossil jacket. Before a fossil can be completely removed from the dig site, a plaster jacket is applied to it to protect it. When the fossil is brought back to the museum the jacket is removed and prep work can begin.
© The Field Museum, CSGEO69575, Photographer Elmer S. Riggs.
Men applying plaster jacket to a Megatherium.
5x7 Interpositive 6/1/1926
