PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION 



Statistics seem inadequate to represent the report of the Divisions 

 of Photography and Illustration at the Museum. To say that 

 22,449 negatives, prints, slides, kodachromes, and transparencies 

 were produced by the Division of Photography does not give recog- 

 nition to the high quality of the work that has made this division 

 such an important factor in the Museum's operations. John Bayalis 

 and Homer V. Holdren are ever alert to the needs of the Museum, 

 not only for recording but for interpreting its work. The series of 

 photographs showing construction of the Gorgosaurus-Lambeosaurus 

 exhibit now in Stanley Field Hall (see page 24) is of great importance 

 both as a record of the past and as a guide for future construction. 

 Photographs of exceptional interest were prepared to illustrate the 

 Museum's monthly Bulletin and to provide its covers, and patient 

 and painstaking care was required in bringing out the exact detail 

 necessary for the illustration of scientific documents. This pride of 

 accomplishment was felt not only by the photographers but also by 

 all working with them. Miss Mary Creed meticulously handled the 

 details of record-keeping and expediting orders in addition to the 

 general custodianship of the thousands of films that must be always 

 available at a moment's notice. More than 123,000 negatives are 

 now in the files of the Division of Photography. 



E. John Pfiffner, Staff Artist in the Division of Illustration, 

 produced a splendid mural of the bromeliad Puya raimondii, which 

 is found in the Andes (see page 51), prepared illustrative material 

 for the Bulletin and Museum publications, and assisted in the layout 

 of exhibits for the Department of Zoology. Late in the year Miss 

 Marion Pahl, Staff Illustrator, came to the Museum and ably 

 assisted in the production of the great amount of illustrative material 

 required by our staff of research scientists. The work of other 

 persons in the field of illustration might well be recognized, in- 

 cluding Mrs. Ruth Andris of the Department of Zoology, whose 

 cartoons have appeared so often in the Bulletin, and Gustaf Dalstrom 

 of the Department of Anthropology, whose drawing used on the 

 cover of the April Bulletin was reprinted, by permission, in publi- 

 cations all around the world (see page 71). The work of Samuel H. 

 Grove, Jr., in the Department of Botany, of Miss Maidi Wiebe in 

 the Department of Geology, and of Miss Phyllis Wade in the 

 Department of Zoology rarely comes to the attention of Members of 

 the Museum but is of considerable importance in our publications 

 or exhibition programs. (Examples of material prepared by the 

 Division of Illustration are shown on page 84.) 



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