Diagram with Measurements of the Fénykövi Elephant
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1955
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7306, Box 2, Folder 1
Diagram of the Fénykövi elephant with its measurements provided by José Fénykövi to assist the Smithsonian taxidermists in the mounting of the specimen. Photo states that the measurements sworn to before president of the Angola Game Comm. and legalized by the U.S. Consul in Luanda. When it was unveiled in 1959 at the Museum of Natural History, it was the largest land mammal exhibited in a museum.
Fénykövi, Josef J
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7306, Box 2, Folder 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1955
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Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 8.5w x 11h; Type of Image: Drawing; Medium: Photographic print