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    The Photo Archives has an extensive collection of geological images form the past and the present.

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    • Media for Field Museum History

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    • Benld Meteorite. Ed McCain near the car that was hit by the meteorite. 1938.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO79617Photographer unknown

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Late Ordovician Life diorama 390 million years ago models of: seaweed, coral, brachiopod, clam, snail, cephalopod and trilobite.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Middle Cambrian Life diorama, 500 million years ago. Shown are models of: seaweed, sponges, sea cucumbers, brachiopods, worm, trilobites and crustaceans. Fine grained shale bed from British Columbia.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Mastodon americanus, Kerr skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO82370Photographer unknown

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Eugene Richardson, Curator of Paleontology and Tibor Perenyi, scientific illustrator, creating a model of the Tully Monster, Tullimonstrum gregarium, for exhibitCredit Information:Neg. # GEO82825Photographer: unknown

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Meteorite slice.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Carboniferous Forest Diorama or Coal Forest Diorama.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY 4.0

    • Albertosaurus libratus fossil skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO85827cPhotographer unknown

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Albertosaurus, black background, Albertosaurus libratus. Size: 27 ft (8.5m) long, 2.5 tons (2,500kg). Late Cretaceous, 75-85 million years ago.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Soft-shelled turtle. Apalone sp. (with Diplomystus dentatus, Pareodus testis, and Knightia eocaena). Early Eocene (50 million years ago) Fossil Lake, Wyoming.Credit Information:Neg. # GEO85891cPhotographer: unknown

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Fossil of a fish eating a fish: Mioplosus labrocoides swallowing a knightia eocaena.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Skeleton of Columbian Mammoth in Teeth Tusks and Tar Pits exhibit. Charles Knight La Brea Tar Pools painting in background.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Sue, Tyrannosaurus rex, five foot long, 2000 pound skull.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Sue, T. rex dinosaur skull, profile, jaws open, 5 feet long.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • External view, 3/4 of Sue, T. rex skull. CT scan made at Boeing Corporation, California. Credit Information: Neg. # GEO86195_3cCT Scan by Chris Brochu

      Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) The Field Museum

    • Opal Cabochon brooch with carved face of Sun God, gold mounting.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Lepidopteris ottonis (Seed Fern). East Greenland Expedition, 2002. Astartekloft, Hess 89, Bed 4.

      Photographer(s): Mark Widhalm (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) The Field Museum

    • Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) The Field Museum

    • Gorgosaurus libratus, Lambe fossil skeleton in Stanley Field Hall.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Sue, T. rex, fossil skeleton with white background.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Sue T. rex reconstructed cast of skull.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Topazes (smoky topaz), 3 gems shown.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Chalmers Topaz. Flawless faceted white oval with blue cast.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

    • Dimetrodon.

      Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Stenopterygius quardiscissus (Quenstedt) (or quadricissus), fossil skeleton of a fish-shaped ichthyosaur with epidermis outline preserved.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

    • Tiffany window, mermaid and fish. Viewable in the Granger Hall of Gems on the Museum's upper level.

      Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

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