Chicago Field Museum Memories

Malvina Hoffman's Hawaiian surfboard rider - 1936

South end of Stanley Field hall - date unknown

Postcards

The Field Museum opened its current building in 1920. Here are photos of it under construction and visitors on opening day.

Remember post cards?

The Camarasaurus skull that used to grace the top of the Apatasaurus skeleton.

The Apatasaurus at the Field Museum today has the correct head.

https://news.wttw.com/2019/09/26/story-mold-a-rama-chicagos-very-own-souvenir-machine

The Story of Mold-A-Rama, Chicago’s Very Own Souvenir Machine For more than 50 years, vending machines scattered throughout Chicago-area zoos and museums have sold visitors souvenirs made of melted plastic. Meet the man keeping the vintage technology alive.

See ... wrong skull on the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus.

Here's a fuller version of the story: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/26/nyregion/yale-brontosaurus-gets-head-on-right-at-last.html

Classic Mold-A-Rama Brontosaurus souvenier from the Field Musuem - To this day these things show the wrong head on the Brontosaurus (more properly called "Apatosaurus") which stems from back in the days of the originally mounted fossil display that included a skull from the wrong dinosaur.

View of Hall 39 (second floor northwest wing) showing geology displays

Mastodon fossil in Hall 38