Destructive Mammals Exhibit, Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History

ID: MNH-239 or MNH239

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1959

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 3

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Summary

Exhibit case displays animals who plague man by wantonly destroying his crops and other property . The case contains the mountain beaver, the woodchuck, the ground squirrel, the Norway rat and the gray squirrel. The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 3

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1959

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Animals
  • Destructive Mammals Exhibit
  • Exhibitions
  • Rat, Norway
  • Hall of Mammals
  • Aplodontia (Mountain beaver)
  • Squirrel, Gray
  • Woodchuck
  • Mammals
  • Squirrel, Ground
  • Beaver, Mountain

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-239 or MNH239

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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