This is Throwback Thursday #180.  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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More photos from the Field Museum Photo Archive on Tumblr.   This time views in/of/from the museum back in the day…

Here is a great photo of the Museum Campus in 1926. No Shedd Aquarium or Adler Planetarium yet. Look at how tiny Soldier Field is.

© The Field Museum, GN82988, Photographer Kauffman and Fabray Company.

Field Museum exterior aerial view showing Soldier Field nearly complete. Shedd Aquarium building not built yet.

8×10 negative

1926

Here is an aerial view of the museum back in 1938. This was before we filled in the lightwells to make more space for exhibitions and collections.

© The Field Museum, GN78428.

Aerial view of Field Museum with Soldier Field in the foreground.

8×10 negative

1/13/1938 

Here is a really fun photo from the roof of the museum. The Skyline looks awfully short.

© The Field Museum, GN79261.

North parking lot, cars, Grant Park bandshell, Chicago downtown skyline.

1957

A little boy making faces at Bushman, a famous gorilla from Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. When he passed away in 1951 he went to the Field Museum.

Bushman is still on display on the ground floor of the museum.

© The Field Museum, GN79754, Photographer John Bayalis.

Children girl and boy, holding hands and standing in front of case and making faces at Bushman, the Gorilla.

4×5 negative

1963

Two beautiful marble lions watch as visitors pass by.

© The Field Museum, GN79868.

Chinese Marble Lion statue lion figures [sculpture].

8×10 negative

4/1/1964 

Sorry about the lack of posts the past two days, sadly the doors of the museum are frozen shut and we just can’t get to the negatives. Just Kidding. But it is far too cold to venture out. Hope you are all staying warm.

© The Field Museum CSB34764

Bird in the snow, Field Columbian Museum building south exterior in distance. Jackson Park, Chicago. 1912.

5×7 inch glass negative
1912.