Following Andrew Carnegie's gift of a cast of the skeleton of Diplodocus carnegii to England's King Edward VII in 1905, additional casts were prepared and installed in natural history museums of Europe, South American and Mexico. London newspaper clippings record the 1905 arrival of "Dippy" as the dinosaur was known. The director of the Carnegie Museum, William J. Holland, and preparator Arthur S. Coggeshall installed casts at the Humboldt Museum in Berlin in 1908, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1909, the K.K. Hofmuseum in Vienna in 1909, the Aldrovandi Museum in Bologna in 1909, the Museum of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg in 1910, La Plata, Argentina in 1911, the Royal Museum of Madrid in 1913 and the National Museum of Natural Science in Mexico City in 1930.  An additional cast was sent to the Bayerische Staatssammlung in Munich 1934 but was never erected.  The creation of casts was supported by the Restoration Fund established by Andrew Carnegie.  Free shipment of the casts was negotiated with various shipping lines.

Correspondence between Holland and  the various museum official includes discussion of the placement of the dinosaur within the museum, details on the mounting of the skeleton and construction of the bases.  The correspondence dealing with the cast sent to the National Museum of Natural History in Mexico, between Holland and Alfonso Herrera, director of the Mexican Museum and his successor, Isaac Ochoterrena, deals in part with the exact wording of the bronze plaque that accompanied the cast.