British Museum Bird Cards, 1922 - 1926

File — Box: Oversize 1, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1. Four disbound oversized cardboard album leaves to which are crudely affixed 19 British Museum cards depicting various birds. Each card is 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" with a color lithograph of one bird; the name and printer noted beneath the illustration. There are also comments about each bird hand-written on the album page above each card.

2. A small pamphlet "British Museum (Natural History) Birds General Series (No. 2)" which presumably accompanied one set of the cards, is also mounted to one of the pages.

Dates

Creation: 1922 - 1926

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 Folder(s)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Related Materials

These bird cards were purchased in 2012 as part of a separate lot entitled "The Commonplace Album of Ellen Harper Parkes - 1826" the contents of which can be found archived separately.

Separated by 100 years, there does not appear to be any connection between the two items.