Full Profile of a Young Bull Elephant

ID: SIA2010-0170 and Fénykövi Neg. # 2055-BN/5

Creator: Fénykövi, Josef J

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: February 1958

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 1102, Folder: Accession 208986

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Summary

A full side view of a recently captured young bull elephant. Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to mount the skin of a bull elephant donated by Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution, for display in the Rotunda of the Natural History Building.

Subject

United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 1102, Folder: Accession 208986

Contact information

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

Date

February 1958

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Taxidermy
  • Animals
  • Taxidermists
  • Models (representations)
  • Fénykövi Elephant
  • Elephants
  • Models and modelmaking

Place

  • Angola
  • Africa

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Animal, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-0170 and Fénykövi Neg. # 2055-BN/5

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 7.0w x 5.0h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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