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THBWalter Granger Collection of Paleontological Photographs
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LiveJun 13, 2014 - Jun 14, 2014
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Paleontologist expedition photograph collection, including approx. 140 4.75 x 6.5 in. photos, 11 photos that measure 8 x 9.5 in., a 10 x 14 in. photograph of an expedition with pack camels, a 10 x 13 in. photo of Granger’s family, each member identified on verso, an 8 x 10 in. signed photo to Walter from fellow naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, and 2 10 x 14 in. proofs –- both portraits of Granger. The photos are complied in three modern folio binders, some glued to old black photo album paper. The larger photographs are not mounted. Also included are three pamphlets: Nevada Races of the Microtus Montanus Group of Meadow Mice, by E. Raymond Hall (University of California Press, 1935, 11pp); Reflexions sur le Progres, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Peking, China, 1941, 27pp; 250 copies for private circulation only), inscribed to Granger on FFEP; and a German pamphlet on Russian zoology and paleontology publications in the year 1933).
Views include many nice landscapes from the expedition locations in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and the Badlands, views of dinosaur bones (some with various bones numbered on the print), the crew's campsites, the town of Medicine Bow and other small towns, Devil's Tower, ruins at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, NM, a shot labeled "Ruins of sheep-herder's cabin, the foundation composed entirely of the remains of dinosaurs," Mexican sheep herders, Granger's family, and more.
Many photos with annotation on the album page, dated 1894-1901, with identifications of locations and members of the expedition, including Albert Thomson, Prof. Stratford, H. Menke, Jacob Wortmer, F.A. Schneider, Richard Swann Lull, W.D. Matthew, Peter Kaisen, Barnum Brown, John Backstrom, and L.S. Quackenbush. Many of the photographs are credited to Thomson.
Walter W. Granger (1872-1941) was a paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, noted for his discovery of several important dinosaur species.
He began working as a taxidermist for the AMNH at the age of 17 and joined the museum's expeditions to the American West in 1894 and 1895, where he developed an interest in fossil hunting and paleontology, especially dinosaurs. After gaining a position in the museum's Department of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1896, he participated in several more expeditions, including one in 1897, outside Laramie, WY, where he discovered the Bone Cabin Quarry, which yielded dozens of fossil specimens of large dinosaurs.
Granger expanded his search to Egypt in the 1900s and China and Mongolia in the 1920s, where he partnered with Roy Chapman Andrews and made a series of groundbreaking discoveries in the Gobi Desert, including Velociraptor, Oviraptor, and Protoceratops. Famed paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson has called him "the greatest collector of fossil vertebrates that ever lived." - Shipping Info
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