Photograph
Passenger Pigeon Plaque
| The Passenger Pigeon Plaque monument designed and built between 1947 and 1948 and is located in Wyalusing State Park. The plaque reads "DEDICATED TO THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON Shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This Species Became Extinct Through the Avarice and Thoughtlessness of Man." |
| Image ID: | 34683 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1947 |
| Creator Name: | Peterson, Harvard |
| City: | Wyalusing |
| County: | Grant |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PF Wyalusing State Park.5 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.5 x 4.5 inches |
| Cities and towns |
| Birds |
| State parks and reserves |
| Monuments |
| Plaques, plaquettes |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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