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William Temple Hornaday working on a tiger model in a taxidermy studio that was located in the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, circa 1880.
	William Temple Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist of the United States National Museum, Curator of the Department of Living Animals, and the first Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, circa 1890.
William Temple Hornaday (center) and Andrew Forney, along with another unidentified man, working in the taxidermy studio behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, circa 1880. A bird hangs from the ceiling and mounted animals line the shelves. Skulls and animal skins are scattered throughout the room.
	William Temple Hornaday with a baby bison known as Sandy, probably on the grounds adjoining the Smithsonian Castle. It is likely this is the bison calf Hornaday brought back from his 1886 summer field trip to Montana. The calf lived only a short time.

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