Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 7.0w x 5.0h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Animal, candid
Place:
Africa
Angola
Date:
November 14, 1955
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The elephant was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Josef J. Fénykövi and placed on display at the National Museum of Natural History in 1959. Fénykövi sent images of the elephant to Dr. Remington Kellogg, Director of the United States National Museum, in 1958 to help the United States National Museum taxidermists to reconstruct the elephant to be prepared for exhibition in the Rotunda of the Natural History Building.
Summary:
A man, who worked on Josef J. Fénykövi's African hunt, measures a male African bush elephant shortly after the elephant was killed.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 1102, Folder Accession 208986
