Photograph
Two Passenger Pigeons: Frontal View
Frontal view of two passenger pigeons. This species of pigeon is now extinct. The pigeons lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whitman, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago. |
Image ID: | 53452 |
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Creation Date: | 1896 |
Creator Name: | Hubbard, J. G. |
City: | Chicago |
County: | |
State: | Illinois |
Collection Name: | Passenger pigeon specimen photographs, 1896 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
Original Format Number: | PH 2807 |
Original Dimensions: | 4 x 5 inches |
Note on back reads, "No. 4, Parent and Young. Probably the same two birds as in No. 3." Note on back of duplicate reads, "from Frank M. Chapman". Curator of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York from 1908. |
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