Mounted Model of Great Auk

ID: SIA Acc. 11-007 [MNH-5038]

Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Form/Genre: Glass negatives

Date: 1880

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-007, Box 025, Image No. MNH-5038

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Summary

As first prepared. This specimen was later remodeled by taxidermist Nelson R. Wood.

Subject

United States National Museum

Notes

  • See Annual Report of the Board of Regents, including USNM, 1892, Plate XXXVII.
  • USNM Cat. No. 57338.
  • Specimen collected by C.E. Gotz, Isle of Eldey, Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean, June 1834.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-007, Box 025, Image No. MNH-5038

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1880
  • 1880s

Restrictions & Rights

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  • No Copyright - United States

Topic

  • Taxidermy
  • Zoology
  • Extinct birds
  • Collection and preservation
  • Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation

Form/Genre

Glass negatives

Local number

SIA Acc. 11-007 [MNH-5038]

Physical description

10 x 8;

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