A young cinnamon teal, Los Banos, California. Painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History 

Young Horned Grebe, postcard from painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History 

Parakeets (Pyrrhura melanura and Pyrrhura albipectus), postcard from painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History 

Amethyst, Guerera, Mexico, Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals, postcard 

Specimen of crystalized native gold, about 7 inches across, from the Empire Star Mine of Grass Valley, California, exhibited in the Guggenheim Hall of Minerals, postcard 

Postcard depicting Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus, from a painting by Charles R. Knight 

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Building, American Museum of Natural History, New York, postcard 

Snowy Owl, specimen from the American Museum of Natural History, postcard 

Bald Eagle, Biology of Birds Hall, American Museum of Natural History, postcard 

Gold alligator, for use as a pendant, Chiriqui, Panama, postcard 

Jaguar, detail of diorama, Hall of North American Mammals, postcard 

Votive figure, cast gold, Musica style, Central Colombia, 13th-16th centuries A.D., height 8 cm., Gold of the Americas, American Museum of Natural History, postcard 

Model of a typical oil derrick, Hall of Oil Geology, postcard 

Siberian tiger, North Asiatic Hall, American Museum of Natural History, postcard 

New Guinea debating stool, Sepik River, Hall of Pacific Peoples, American Museum of Natural History, postcard 

Postcard depicting ceremonial cup, gold fused to silver, bird on rim has wire neckband ornamented with bells, Northern Chimu culture, (900-1400 A.D.?) 

Postcard depicting a detail of the Mountain Gorilla diorama, Akeley Hall of African Mammals, postcard 

Pendant of cast gold, with stylized anthropomorphic figure, Darien style, 11.5 cm., Northwestern Colombia, postcard 

Aerial view of the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan Square 

These colorful sea snails are among the many dwellers of the western Atlantic shores described in the American Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells - Land, Freshwater, and Marine - from Nova Scot