Word: taxidermist
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Andrew Kramer's first instrument shop was set up in the Smithsonian's stable, which he shared with a taxidermist and Dr. Langley's horse and buggy. There he set up his footpower lathe, forge, anvil and other primitive equipment; there he made metal parts for Langley's much-derided airplane (which almost but not quite flew, before the Wrights'); and there he built fine instruments as no one else could...
...fashioned stuffed-animal-on-a-pedestal type, it is impossible for museumkeepers to supply the demand. It takes time and money, skill and patience, to create good dioramas. First, a hunter has to bag some subjects worth putting on display. After that, at least four experts are needed: a taxidermist to make the animals look alive again, a propmaker and a landscape painter to imitate their native surroundings, and a cabinetmaker to seal the whole display under glass...
...Paris' Rue de la Huchette, which he pictured so tenderly in The Last Time I Saw Paris. About one-third of the 1,500 people who lived on the street in the early '30s were still there, he reported. Oldtimers included Mme. Frémont, the laundress, Taxidermist Noël and the chestnut vendor. The traffic was the same as 20 years ago, said Paul-it was a marvel anybody was alive...
...like this starts with a field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...
Last week the hard part of the work was under way. Museum cabinetmakers were making sure the beaver case would be dustproof and crackproof. The accessories man was up to his ears in drifts of paper leaves. The taxidermist was trying to decide on an oil to make one of the beavers stay wet-looking (he thought an overdose of Kreml might be the best bet). The electricians were working for a muted, dusky lighting effect. Wilson himself had three months painting ahead on the beaver background...