Press Kit Images: Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms

  • Gallery Entrance with Outcasts title wall, image of Mary Banning, wax mushrooms, and view into the gallery space
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    Title wall and gallery entrance to the NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms

  • Outcasts title wall and view of the wax mushrooms
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    Title wall of the NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms. In view are ten wax mushroom sculptures created c. 1917 by Henri Marchand (1887–1960).

  • Image of the gallery including exhibit text and a case holding a book and images of Mary Banning's handwritten pages
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    Gallery view of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms

  • exhibit wall text over a case holding the original binding for Banning's Fungi of Maryland manuscript. On the wall hang Banning's handwritten Dedication and Preface pages
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    Gallery view of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms. Displayed beneath Banning's quote, "Fungi are considered vegetable outcasts. Like beggars by the wayside dressed in gay attire, they ask for attention but claim none," are the original binding for the Fungi of Maryland manuscript and Banning's handwritten dedication and preface pages.

  • three framed water color illustrations of mushrooms
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    Gallery view of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms, featuring three framed original mushroom watercolors from Fungi of Maryland

  • view of two gallery walls at the back of the exhibit
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    Gallery view of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms

  • forest scene depicting the underground root system of trees and mushrooms with facts highlighted in circular callout boxes
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    "Interpendencies" feature wall of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms

  • exhibit case with photographs and mushrooms samples from NYSM research and Charles Peck's field microscope and tools
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    "Why Mushroom Collections Matter" exhibit case from the NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms, including NYSM research photographs and mushroom samples and Charles Peck's field microscope and tools.

  • watercolor illustration of blue mushrooms over a handwritten cursive description
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    Mary Banning (1822–1903)
    Lactarius indigo Schw., 1878
    Watercolor on paper
    NYSM i-595
    Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY

  • watercolor illustration of a large yellow mushroom
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    Mary Banning (1822–1903)
    Polyporus beattiei Banning, late 1800s
    Watercolor on paper
    NYSM i-632
    Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY

  • water color illustration of a group of red mushrooms clinging to wood bark
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    Mary Banning (1822–1903)
    Fistulina hepatica Fr., late 1800s
    Watercolor on paper
    NYSM i-648
    Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY

  • watercolor illustration of three white and purple mushrooms
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    Mary Banning (1822–1903)
    Agaricus americanus Peck, 1879
    Watercolor on paper
    NYSM i-529
    Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY

  • Gallery view of Prototaxites fossil in front of an illustrative mural of the Middle Devonian period
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    Fossil specimen of the ancient Devonian fungi, Prototaxities, displayed at the foot of a mural illustrating what it may have looked like growing in a late Silurian to late Devonian period (420–370 million years ago) terrestrial environment.

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