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Title wall and gallery entrance to the NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms
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).
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.
Gallery view of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms, featuring three framed original mushroom watercolors from Fungi of Maryland
"Interpendencies" feature wall of NYSM exhibit Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms
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.
"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.
Mary Banning (1822–1903)
Lactarius indigo Schw., 1878
Watercolor on paper
NYSM i-595
Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Mary Banning (1822–1903)
Polyporus beattiei Banning, late 1800s
Watercolor on paper
NYSM i-632
Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Mary Banning (1822–1903)
Fistulina hepatica Fr., late 1800s
Watercolor on paper
NYSM i-648
Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY
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.