Agate Fossil Beds
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APPENDIX A:
Historic and Contemporary Site Photographs (continued)
temporary visitor center
Figure No. 21 Visitor Center Trailer

AGATE FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Agate, Nebraska

A sidewalk leads from the visitor parking lot to the temporary visitor center.

Photographer: Ron Cockrell, Historian, Midwest Regional Office
January 10, 1983
Negative: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
Division of Cultural Resources Management


sales display
Figure No. 22 Visitor Center Sales Display

AGATE FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Agate, Nebraska

This sales display is adjacent to the visitor information desk at one end of the trailer.

Photographer: Ron Cockrell, Historian, Midwest Regional Office
January 10, 1983
Negative: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
Division of Cultural Resources Management


wall mural
Figure No. 23 Visitor Center Exhibit

AGATE FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Agate, Nebraska

Telling the story of what life at Agate Fossil Beds must have been like 20,000,000 years ago, this wall mural is an excellent example of interpretive exhibits developed by Harpers Ferry Center.

Photographer: Ron Cockrell, Historian, Midwest Regional Office
January 10, 1983
Negative: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
Division of Cultural Resources Management


Fossil Hills Trail
Figure No. 24 Fossil Hills Trail to Agate Fossil Beds

AGATE FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Agate, Nebraska

Beyond a pile of snow in the visitor parking lot is one of the new park signs pointing the way to the fossil beds.

Photographer: Ron Cockrell, Historian, Midwest Regional Office
January 10, 1983
Negative: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
Division of Cultural Resources Management


maintenance shop and garage
Figure No. 25 Maintenance Building

AGATE FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Agate, Nebraska

This permanent metal building, southeast of the visitor center trailer, contains the maintenance shop and garage, and a curatorial storage room.

Photographer: Ron Cockrell, Historian, Midwest Regional Office
January 10, 1983
Negative: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
Division of Cultural Resources Management

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