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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramBoy looking over fossil teeth of a four tusked mastodon
Image Number
C005878
Date Note
April 1947.
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Collection
Department of Commerce collection
Geographic Term
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
General Note
Three-year old Gerald Miner, looks over the giant "nippers" of a four tusked mastodon, unearthed in the phosphate mines of southwest Florida. Many remains of the giant animals which roamed the lush jungles of Florida 60-million years ago have been unearthed and placed in the museum of the mining companies.
Boy looking over fossil teeth of a four tusked mastodon
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