This is Throwback Thursday #68.  In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general.  If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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Back in Throwback Thursday #13, we visited the Field Museum Photo Archive blog over on Tumbler.  There haven’t been any new posts since 2015, but there is still a bunch of good material… have a look sometime!  Until then, here are a few old photos to enjoy!

Fossil Friday, fossil dig…. I wonder if this is the Megatherium in Evolving Planet?

At the site of Megatherium excavation  Expedition member (Riggs or Thorne) at the site of Megatherium excavation. Includes fossils and bottles inside cave. Bank of Rio Quequen, Salado. Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1927.

Name of Expedition: 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs (Leader and Photographer),Robert C. Thorne (Collector), Rudolf Stahlecker (Collector), Felipe Mendez
Expedition Start Date: April 1926
Expedition End Date: November 1926
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Collecting
Location: South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Quequen

Original material: 5×7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSGEO69647

Fossil Friday, insect wind.  Check out the amazing amount of detail in this fossil wing.

© The Field Museum, GEO81481.

Fossil insect wing.  5×7 negative 12/14/1954 

Throw back to when the Elephants reigned over Stanley Field Hall. But note the man in the center planning the future Albertosaurus installation. 

© The Field Museum, GEO81595.

Gorgosaurus Albertosaurus: Order: Saurischia Family: Tyrannosauridae Old Family: Deinodontidae. Progress of assembly or construction of Late Cretaceous fossil skeleton. Stanley Field Hall. [see Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus].

8×10 negative  1/18/1956 

Fossil Friday, mystery. The below caption is all the info we have on this fossil.

Maybe you can help us out. Do you know what this is a fossil of? Let us know in the comments. 

© The Field Museum, GEO83626.

Specimen. 5×7 negative 1970 

We are breaking in to your regularly scheduled photo archives Tumblr to bring you this breaking news:

Blackhawks Fever has hit the Field Museum!

© The Field Museum, GN91892_275d, Photographer Karen Bean.

The Stanley Cup visits FM, SFH (appears as if Sue is drinking from the Cup).

4288 x 2848 pixels 10/12/2013

Fossil Friday, fossil jacket. Before a fossil can be completely removed from the dig site, a plaster jacket is applied to it to protect it. When the fossil is brought back to the museum the jacket is removed and prep work can begin.

© The Field Museum, CSGEO69575, Photographer Elmer S. Riggs.

Men applying plaster jacket to a Megatherium.

5×7 Interpositive  6/1/1926

Fossil Friday, Fossil dig.  Check out the amazing landscape.

© The Field Museum, CSGEO44836.

L to R: C. Harold Riggs, John B. Abbott, expedition members excavating the skeleton of Krytosaurus. Landscape and mountains.

Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition Geology Paleontological North America Canada Alberta Belly River Formation.

5×7 album print  6/1/1922