Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910) Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exhibit
Place:
Africa
Date:
1915
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, August 8, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives. See Neg. #SIA2010-0482 for a side view of the exhibit.
Summary:
In April of 1913, East African lions, from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner, are placed on display in Mammal Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History. The building opened in 1910. Pictured are three full-grown East African lion with two cubs in a lifelike pose at an African water hole.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 1; Record Unit 9516, Box 1, F: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews
