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Passenger Pigeon in Nest

Date: 1896
Description: Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species now extinct, sitting in a nest within foliage. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the avia...
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Passenger Pigeon: Side View

Date: 1896
Description: Side view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whitma...
Photograph

Group of Perched Passenger Pigeons

Date: 1896
Description: Group view of several passenger pigeons (possibly other types of pigeon also?), a species of pigeon now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in c...
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Passenger Pigeons on a Perch

Date: 1896
Description: Two passenger pigeons (left bird possibly a different species). The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in ...
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Passenger Pigeon and Ring Dove

Date: 1896
Description: A passenger pigeon (center) and a ring dove (left) on a downward sloping perch. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived ...
Photograph

Passenger Pigeon on a Perch

Date: 1896
Description: A passenger pigeon on a perch. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whit...
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Passenger Pigeon with Young

Date: 1896
Description: An adult passenger pigeon with its young. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professo...
Photograph

Passenger Pigeon on a Perch

Date: 1896
Description: Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct. This bird was part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Prof...
Photograph

Passenger Pigeon with Immature Plumage

Date: 1896
Description: View of a young passenger pigeon with immature plumage. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. A dove is visible in the background. Part of a group of pigeon...
Photograph

Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Manuscript

Profile of a Semi-Diurnal Spring Tidal Curve

Date: 12 1860
Description: Graph showing the profile of a semi-diurnal spring tidal curve deduced from 5452 half hourly ordinates obtained from the records of self registering tide g...
Photograph

Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
Map or Atlas

North America : Showing the Origin & Progress of the Storm of March 14-17, 1859, and How it Might Have Been Known Upon the Lakes a Whole Day Before it Reached Them!

Date: 1868
Description: This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ...
Photograph

Hattibel Merrill

Date: 1890
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Hattibel [Harriet Bell] Merrill, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelors of Sci...

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