Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing #121

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Object Details

Creator

Ridgway, Robert 1850-1929

Summary

This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7167, Image No. SIA2014-00115

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Local number

SIA RU007167 [SIA2014-00115]

Restrictions & Rights

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No Copyright - United States

Type

Drawings (visual works)

Data Source

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_arc_368678