TGPP Photos

The Granger photograph collection includes over 1,200 expedition, portrait and family photographs. A number of photographs are still pasted in Walter Granger's own albums from his fossil-collecting expeditions to the American West, the Fayum of Egypt and Central Asia. This rare and unique material is being researched and annotated by The Granger Papers Project for eventual publication. Digital reproductions are available for these and the many other photos on this site and in the collection. For purchase and use rights, please inquire here (granger.nh.ultranet@rcn.com).

Expedition cinematographer James B. Shackelford (l.) photographing Walter Granger (r.) in Peking. Granger regarded "Shack" as a skilled amateur fossil collector and close friend. Central Asiatic Expeditions' Peking Headquarters, 1928.

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Walter Granger relaxing after a day of fossil hunting in southwest Wyoming with Jacob L. Wortman, Olaf A. Peterson, and Albert "Bill" Thomson. Granger also trapped for mammals and birds, and usually would do so on subsequent expeditions. Green River Camp, 1895. (107k) Walter Granger and friend. Granger is holding a "Marsh Pick" in his right hand, so named after fossil-collecting pioneer Othniel C. Marsh. Eocene expedition into the Bridger Basin, Wyoming, 1905. (138k) Assistant collector Peter Kaisen's photograph of Walter Granger collecting in the Gobi Desert. Central Asiatic Expeditions (Mongolia),1923. (98k) Anna Granger with James V. Wong and chairbearers on way to fossil-collecting campsite in the western highlands 1,200 ft. above the Yangtze Valley in Sichuan Province. Behind them is a "dragon bone" ridge. Central Asiatic Expeditions (China), 1922-23. (115k) Walter Granger's improvised headquarters at the T'an family ancestral temple in the highlands village of Yangjingou, Sichuan Province. Seated (l. to r.): Walter Granger and James V. Wong; 2nd row standing: Chow, "Buckshot", Chih, and Huei; 3rd row standing: 2 Sichuanese coolies. Central Asiatic Expeditions (China), 1922-23. (112k) Camel caravan bringing water and supplies in from Tamia to Walter Granger's and George Olsen's campsite at Qasr el-Sagha. Note chunk of fossilized tree wood in foreground and fossil boxes awaiting camel transport to Tamia. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (88k) Walter Granger (r.) and George Olsen (l.) on camels in front of temple ruin at Qasr el-Sagha. Ibrahim Salim (l.) and Chief Reis Daoud Mohammed (r.) stand in front. This was the point at about which the Faiyum's now-vanished Lake Moeris rose to its highest level. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (219k) Walter Granger is in the foreground in this photograph, sitting up in his bedroll. Peter Kaisen is standing in the background and, to the right, W.D. Matthew is up on his elbow in his bedroll. This productive area in southern Wyoming northwest of Laramie hosts Como Bluff and Bone Cabin Quarry. Como Bluff was originally discovered by the crew laying track for the Union Pacific railway. The famous Bone Cabin site was discovered in 1897 by Walter Granger when he rode over that way from near by Como Bluff late in the season to reconnoiter for possible new localities. He noticed an old sheepherder's cabin that was built from large pieces of weathered-out fossil dinosaur bone, hunks of which lay scattered all about. The find was kept quiet over the winter until the 1898 season when it was formally opened as Bone Cabin Quarry. Bone Cabin Quarry, 1899. (117k) Walter Granger chatting with his young apprentice Hassin Mohammed. Hassin was the only youth in the Arab work party and was the son of Daoud Mohammed. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (105k) Fossil-hunting party in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Standing (l. to r.) are Walter Granger, student intern Barnum Brown, Henry Snyder, Clayton Wetherill, and Jacob L. Wortman. Expedition into the San Juan Basin, 1896. (159k) Walter and Anna Granger aboard the S.S. Vaderland on February 1, 1912, after their three-month tour of the major paleontology institutions in Europe. They sailed back to New York City from Antwerp. European Museum Tour, 1911-1912. (125k) -this page was updated on January 13, 2009-

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Walter Granger relaxing after a day of fossil hunting in southwest Wyoming with Jacob L. Wortman, Olaf A. Peterson, and Albert "Bill" Thomson. Granger also trapped for mammals and birds, and usually would do so on subsequent expeditions. Green River Camp, 1895. (107k)	Walter Granger and friend. Granger is holding a "Marsh Pick" in his right hand, so named after fossil-collecting pioneer Othniel C. Marsh. Eocene expedition into the Bridger Basin, Wyoming, 1905. (138k)
Assistant collector Peter Kaisen's photograph of Walter Granger collecting in the Gobi Desert. Central Asiatic Expeditions (Mongolia),1923. (98k)	Anna Granger with James V. Wong and chairbearers on way to fossil-collecting campsite in the western highlands 1,200 ft. above the Yangtze Valley in Sichuan Province. Behind them is a "dragon bone" ridge. Central Asiatic Expeditions (China), 1922-23. (115k)
Walter Granger's improvised headquarters at the T'an family ancestral temple in the highlands village of Yangjingou, Sichuan Province. Seated (l. to r.): Walter Granger and James V. Wong; 2nd row standing: Chow, "Buckshot", Chih, and Huei; 3rd row standing: 2 Sichuanese coolies. Central Asiatic Expeditions (China), 1922-23. (112k)	Camel caravan bringing water and supplies in from Tamia to Walter Granger's and George Olsen's campsite at Qasr el-Sagha. Note chunk of fossilized tree wood in foreground and fossil boxes awaiting camel transport to Tamia. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (88k)
Walter Granger (r.) and George Olsen (l.) on camels in front of temple ruin at Qasr el-Sagha. Ibrahim Salim (l.) and Chief Reis Daoud Mohammed (r.) stand in front. This was the point at about which the Faiyum's now-vanished Lake Moeris rose to its highest level. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (219k)	Walter Granger is in the foreground in this photograph, sitting up in his bedroll. Peter Kaisen is standing in the background and, to the right, W.D. Matthew is up on his elbow in his bedroll. This productive area in southern Wyoming northwest of Laramie hosts Como Bluff and Bone Cabin Quarry. Como Bluff was originally discovered by the crew laying track for the Union Pacific railway. The famous Bone Cabin site was discovered in 1897 by Walter Granger when he rode over that way from near by Como Bluff late in the season to reconnoiter for possible new localities. He noticed an old sheepherder's cabin that was built from large pieces of weathered-out fossil dinosaur bone, hunks of which lay scattered all about. The find was kept quiet over the winter until the 1898 season when it was formally opened as Bone Cabin Quarry. Bone Cabin Quarry, 1899. (117k)
Walter Granger chatting with his young apprentice Hassin Mohammed. Hassin was the only youth in the Arab work party and was the son of Daoud Mohammed. Faiyum of Egypt Expedition, 1907. (105k)	Fossil-hunting party in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Standing (l. to r.) are Walter Granger, student intern Barnum Brown, Henry Snyder, Clayton Wetherill, and Jacob L. Wortman. Expedition into the San Juan Basin, 1896. (159k)
Walter and Anna Granger aboard the S.S. Vaderland on February 1, 1912, after their three-month tour of the major paleontology institutions in Europe. They sailed back to New York City from Antwerp. European Museum Tour, 1911-1912. (125k)