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1917
Mentor Association, Inc., The
The Mentor - Prehistoric Animal Life Photo Plates

Date:  1917
Country:  United States 

Set ID:  553
Product Type:  Education

SetItems
Advertised Qty:6
ProductsItems
Paper Items:6
Albums:2
Other Stuff:1
TOTAL ITEMS:9
TopicsItems
Extinct Life7
Under Review2

 
Artist(s)
Charles Robert Knight

 

Thank you to the individual(s) and/or to the owner(s) of the resource(s) listed below for contributing information, checklist data, and/or image(s) included on this page.
Robert Telleria
 
These rotogravure (images engraved on a cylinder used to print onto paper) cards may have been the first American set of prehistoric cards published as teaching aids.
 
This booklet that contained the paper cards was published August 15, 1917 (Serial No. 137, Vol. 5, No. 13). The text was written by William Diller Matthew of American Museum of Natural History.

 

Contents
Paper Items
Albums
Other Stuff
 
 
========== Paper Items ==========
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24125 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Trachodon
Trachodon
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24126 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Brontosaurus
Brontosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24127 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Eohippus
Eohippus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24128 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Smilodon
Smilodon
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24129 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Mammuthus
Siberian Mammoth
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24130 Extinct Life -- 1 9-1/2" x 7" n/a Uintatherium
Uintatherium
 
 
 
========== Albums ==========
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
24131 Extinct Life -- 1 10" x 7" 12
Prehistoric Animal Life Booklet (ouotside covers)
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
45861298 -- 1 tbd tbd
Prehistoric Animal Life Booklet (inside covers)
 
 
 
========== Other Stuff ==========
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Form
45861297 -- 1 tbd n/a
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