Dwight Franklin

Dwight Franklin (28 January 1888 in New York City – 19 January 1971 in Santa Monica, California) was an artist, taxidermist, naturalist, museum curator, and designer of costumes for Hollywood films.

Dwight Franklin began employment in 1906 as a taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History. In 1910 he participated in a Museum-sponsored expedition to Mississippi's Moon Lake, part of the habitat of the American paddlefish. With John Treadwell Nichols and Henry Weed Fowler, he was a founder in 1915 of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Franklin created many figurines and sculptures. He built historical dioramas for the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Newark Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. In the early 1930s Franklin moved from New York City to Los Angeles to work as a costume designer for Hollywood films.

Married Mary C. McCall Jr. (b. NY 1904-d. Los Angeles CA 1986)novelist, screenwriter, Jan. 1928. divorced Feb. 1943 Married Eliza Moultrie Franklin (1901–1982).1947-his death

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