Emmet A. Sullivan Dinosaurs

 

 

 

 

Besides sculpting life-sized dinosaurs for Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, Emmet A. Sullivan also made such full-scale creatures for other venues, as shown in these souvenir postcards.

Earlier, in 1933, Sullivan made a dinosaur statue as a tourist lure for a general store in Creston, South Dakota (souvenir post card, below).

In 1955, when Dinosaur Park commissioned Sullivan to make a Protoceratops statue to reside outside its gift shop, he also made a small souvenir version that was sold at the store prior to completion of the full-size figure.

 

 

 

 

 

Sullivan’s famous Wall Drug dinosaur, which stands at the entrance to the South Dakota Badlands.

 

 

 

 

 

Montage of postcards from Wall Drug.

Souvenir plates including the Apatosaurus Sullivan made for Wall Drug.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Souvenir felt pennants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postcards from Farwell’s Dinosaur Park (AKA The Land of Kong), Eureka Springs, Arkansas, showing more of Sullivan’s life-sized dinosaur statues. The park was once owned  by movie star John Agar.