East African Lions Diorama Post 1959
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Date: post 1959
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder:4
A diorama in Mammal Hall, National Museum of Natural History, shows three full-grown East African lion with two cubs in lifelike poses at an African water hole. The East African lions are from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
See Neg. #s 24881 and SIA2010-0482 for earlier exhibits of the Atlas lions.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder:4
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
post 1959
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Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10 w x 6h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print