Object Details
- Author
- Fénykövi, Josef J
- Subject
- Fénykövi, Josef J
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See SIA2010-0163 for a similar image.
- 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 kneels beside the lower leg of the male African bush elephant donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Josef J. Fénykövi. The elephant was collected the day before.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 1102, Folder Accession 208986
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- November 14, 1955
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0176 or Fénykövi Image Number 2355/35 or 97-3033
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Animal, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 7.0w x 5.0h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Africa
- Angola
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Fénykövi Elephant
- Elephants
- African Elephant
- Africans
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12318
