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Linda Hall Library
An Exhibition of Original Publications from the Collections of the Linda Hall Library.
22b. The Diplodocus carnegiei Skeleton, 1901
The Diplodocus at the Carnegie Museum was the first sauropod skeleton to be mounted. A.S. Coggeshall, who was one of the co-discoverers of the first specimen in 1899, was in charge of the mount, and he had to devise a special steel framework to support it. This restoration inspired the American Museum of Natural History in New York to attempt a similar mount of their Brontosaurus, which was a much more difficult task, and was not completed until 1905.
Source
Hatcher, John Bell. "Diplodocus (Marsh): Its osteology, taxonomy, and probable habits, with a restoration of the skeleton," in: Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, vol. 1 (1901), pp. 1-63. This work was on display in the original exhibition as item 22.