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American Dinosaur Abroad - A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodocus (Hardcover)
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American Dinosaur Abroad - A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodocus (Hardcover)
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In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored
by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what
was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after
its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii-or Dippy, as it's known
today-was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at
the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie's pursuit
of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the
late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political
ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further
international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot,
Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British
Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive
diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least
seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over
the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy,
Russia, Argentina, and Spain. In this largely untold history, Ilja
Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie's prized
skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception,
and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social,
political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth
century.
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