File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (frontispiece, crop).jpg

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Frontispiece from a volume of articles, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907 (Mershon, editor). The caption reads: "PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria)

Upper bird, male ; lower, female
Date Print date, 1907
Source Obtained from online scan at passengerpigeon00mers, crop with some border of scanned paper, for relative colour balance. Slightly rotated.
Author
Louis Agassiz Fuertes  (1874–1927)  wikidata:Q1871480 s:en:Author:Louis Agassiz Fuertes
 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Alternative names
Louis A. Fuertes; Louis Agassize Fuertes
Description American artist
Date of birth/death 7 February 1874 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1927 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ithaca Ithaca
Work period 1896–1927
Work location
Ithaca Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q1871480
Other versions Similar found at page 10 of File:The Passenger Pigeon - Mershon.djvu, a file-type not designed to render detailed illustrations. this file is derived from File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (frontispiece).jpeg /


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