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Dinosaurium, The Building That Made the Fossil Famous

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Object Details

  • Date

    1936

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Collotype

  • Contributors

    Published by G. Boylan

  • Object Format

    Postcard

  • Dimensions

    3 7/16 x 5 3/8 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    u.l. printed: The strangest building in the worl made of \ DINOSAUR BONES \ "Millions of years old" - Fossil Museum, \ Como Bluff, Wyoming \ - Where Creation Petrified its History - \ On U.S. Highway 30 - Featured by Ripley

    l.c. printed: THE BUILDING THAT MADE THE FOSSIL FAMOUS

    Verso:

    u.l. to l.l. printed: THE WORLD'S STRANGEST BUILDING \ Is the only building in the world made of \ Dinosaur bones. Truly an anatomical study of \ the world's strangest monsters; 5796 of their \ bones, weighing 102,116 pounds, are in its walls. \ One to two hundred million years ago, this \ bone structure, now petrified, was the framework \ for physical houses in which lived these ani- \ mals; the largest land creatures ever created. \ So in reality, you now see the oldest bone house \ of creation on this planet. \ These torpid reptiles, extinct sixty million \ years, thrived in torrid heat for an estimated \ period of one hundred-forty million years, in \ lands known as WYOMING now. Scientific \ scholars say such early bodies formed many of \ earth's oil deposits. \\ In effect this strange house is a 5796 page \ book of creational hieroglyphics, symbolic of \ strange ages; from the most extensively exposed \ Dinosaur graveyard on earth, Como Bluff, \ Wyoming, where Creation petrified its history. \ EDWARD R. BOYLAN, Curator.

    c. printed transverse: COPYRIGHTED G. BOYLAN, 1936

  • Collection Name

    Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    P1976.48.1454

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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