Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken.
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