Object Details
- Author
- Fénykövi, Josef J
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to mount the skin of a bull elephant donated by Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution, to be displayed in the Rotunda of the Natural History Building.
- 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
- February 1958
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0166 and Fénykövi Neg. # 2055-BN/24
- Type
- Photographic print
- Animal, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 5.0w x 7.0h; Type of Image: Animal, candid Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Africa
- Angola
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Fénykövi Elephant
- Animals
- Elephants
- Taxidermy
- Taxidermists
- Models and modelmaking
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12287
