Photograph
Passenger Pigeon: Profile View with Shadow
| Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct, with its shadow projected on the wall of the cage behind. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whitman, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago. |
| Image ID: | 32610 |
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| Creation Date: | 1896 |
| Creator Name: | Hubbard, J. G. |
| City: | Chicago |
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| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | Passenger pigeon specimen photographs, 1896 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2807 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4 x 4.5 inches |
| From the former collection of Frank M. Chapman, former Curator of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Note on the back of 5 x 4 inch duplicate reads: "This is a very perfect specimen of the adult female." |
| Research |
| Birds |
| Wildlife conservation |
| Indoor photography |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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