Mechanical “cave bears” (Ursus spelaeus) from Messmore & Damon’s popular attraction “The World a Million Years Ago.”
One of Messmore & Damon’s mechanical “cave bears” as it looked during the early 1930s before subsequent refurbishings (below):
The Field Museum souvenir postcard depicting, in black and white, a color mural painted by artist Charles R. Knight for the museum’s Ernest R. Graham Hall, the old “Hall 38.” Shown in this mural panel are two Pleistocene “cave bears.” (This postcard is one of a series reproducing Knight’s murals done for the museum.) Also (below), a postcard showing life-sized “cave bears” at “Dinosaur World” in Eirias Park, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
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