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Group of Seven Passenger Pigeons



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Title: Group of Seven Passenger Pigeons
Description: Seven passenger pigeons (possibly other types of pigeon as well?), a species of pigeon now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whitman, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago.
Image ID: 53454
Creation
Date: 		1896 
Creator
Name: 		Hubbard, J. G.
City, State: Chicago, Illinois
Collection
Name: 		Passenger Pigeon Specimen Photographs, 1896
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		From the collection of Frank M. Chapman, former Curator of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Subjects: Birds
Research
Wildlife conservation
 

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