Hornaday with Baby Bison at Smithsonian

Social Media Share Tools

Object Details

Author: Unknown
Subject: Hornaday, William Temple 1854-1937; National Zoological Park (U.S.); United States National Museum Dept. of Living Animals

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: 79-13252 size is 10h x 8 w and is a reverse image
Summary: William Temple Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist of the United States National Museum from 1882, Curator of the Department of Living Animals, and the first Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, with a baby bison known as Sandy, probably on the grounds adjoining the Smithsonian Castle. This is probably the bison calf that Hornaday brought back from his 1886 summer field trip to Montana. The calf lived only a short time.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 13, Folder: 39
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

1886

Physical description: Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Animals; Buffalo; Zoos; Zoos--Employees; Museum curators; Taxidermists; American bison