Dad's Museum

This Natural History Museum and Antiques Collection was originally curated by Gilbert R. Miller in the early 1970’s, in Blairsville Pennsylvania. In 2019, a portion was loaned to Carnegie Mellon University to be reshown and displayed. Archivists include daughter Miranda R. Miller.

numbered guide for the collection (above)

a photo of the original museum with Gilbert R. Miller (right) and his niece Lisa (left) in 1973.

16. sunday school medal

7. Late-Prehistoric Conemaugh Arrowheads (collected from Southwestern Pennsylvanian forests by Andrew Miller) Similar artifacts from the Conemaugh Watershed were displayed in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1956 by Dr. Don Dragoo, but were repatriated after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990.

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