c. 1850’s, “Mountain Goat”, Louis-Jules Duboscq-Soleil via I Photo Central

c. 1850’s, “Mountain Goat”, Louis-Jules Duboscq-Soleil

via I Photo Central

ca. 1876, [Philadelphia Centennial-Mammal Exhibit] via the Smithsonian Institution Archives, History Division

ca. 1876, [Philadelphia Centennial-Mammal Exhibit]

via the Smithsonian Institution Archives, History Division

ca. 1873, “No. 2. Taxidermist’s Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Buffalo Heads used for advertising purposes”, Robert Benecke via the Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries: U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints Collection

ca. 1873, “No. 2. Taxidermist’s Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Buffalo Heads used for advertising purposes”, Robert Benecke

via the Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries: U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints Collection

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