Cleaning the Elephants Frame Color:Unframed enormously rich oyster beds within

enormously rich oyster beds within easy reach of Manhattan were yielding tons of oysters every day

Whitney Warren

This print is part of The New York Times Early Edition collection

"They swarmed around the great liner as the Lilliputians swarmed around Gullivers

Cleaning the Elephants Frame Color:Unframed enormously rich oyster beds withinThe elephant exhibit gets cleaned by vacuums and feather dusters at the American Museum of Natural History on Feb. 28, 1951. It's part of spring cleaning at the 25 acre museum, a process requiring 135 workers and a month of scrubbing elephants, dinosaurs, totem poles, teepees and 94,000 square feet of glass. The Times wrote on March 1, 1951, "The 135 man corps of the custodian's department of the American Museum of Natural History has come to a time