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Dinosaurs

From the 1964 New York World’s Fair: the Sinclair Oil Corporation sponsored an exhibit called “Dinoland,” which featured life-size replicas of nine different dinosaurs. Here, the dinos are being shipped via barge down the Hudson River.

Louis Paul Jonas, a famed designer, was behind the nine fiberglass dinosaurs that inhabited Dinoland. Jonas also designed dioramas for prestigious museums, including the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Berkshire Museum. Two of the dinos were mechanized: the nineteen-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus and the Brontosaurus. He also did his homework, enlisting famed paleontologists to make sure Dinoland was as accurate as possible for the time.