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North American birds

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Description: "In a unique blend of painting and prose, Lorus and Margery Milne and Marie Nonnast Bohlen have combined their talents to produce a distinguished porfolio of North American birds...North American Birds discusses over 200 species of birds found in all regions of the North American continent, from the familiar robin and hummingbird to rare and endangered ones, like the trumpeter swan and the ivory-billed woodpecker." --Dust jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1969]
Call number: 609978
Creator: Milne, Lorus Johnson (1910-1987)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 013623769X; 9780136237693
Provenance: Gift of Curt B. Smith, 2016. From the library of Jack Smith.

[Lithographic stone for Spencer Fullerton Baird's A history of North American birds]

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Made sometime before 1875 when A history of North American birds was published by Little, Brown and Company. The artist was Robert Ridgway (1850-1929). Contains four images: Lawrence warbler; White-throated warbler; Black-throated warbler; Summer yellow bird. Both sides of stone used with two birds per side.

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Feathered favourites : twelve coloured pictures of British birds

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Each of the dozen birds is depicted in a color-printed lithograph surrounded by a gilt frame, and followed by poems that feature each bird by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Milton, Burns, Grahame, Montgomery, and others. Birds depicted are the House-Sparrow, Wren, Blackcap, Swallow, Woodpecker, Water-Wagtail, Titmouse, King-Fisher, Woodlark, Swan, Eagle and Wild Duck.

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Birds for School and Home: Folio 2, Summer Birds

Visual Materials

One portfolio of bird images entitled Birds for School and Home: Folio 2, Summer Birds, designed by Maud Adelaide Wright, manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, copyright 1911. The set is comprised of 7 sheets of bird parts (bodies, wings and tails) for coloring and cutting out. These are designed to be colored, cut out and sewn or pasted together to form 3-dimensional objects to be hung, as in a mobile. The sheets of cutouts are preceded by a preliminary sheet which lists the types of birds and directions for coloring them. The types of birds included in this set are: wood thrush; phoebe; catbird; kingfisher; hummingbird; king bird; chewink; chimney swift; redstart and Maryland Yellowthroat. The sheets are housed within an illustrated paper envelope with directions for use. "Copyright 1911" is printed on each of the sheets and on the outer envelope.

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Books -- How to Know the Birds. An Introduction to Bird Recognition by Roger Tory Peterson

Manuscripts

This collection primarily consists of printed material related to naturalist and ornithologist Samuel Frank Dexter, 1847-1906. There are seven books: Field Guide to Wildflowers by Roger Tory Peterson; A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs by George A. Petrides; A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Tory Peterson; How to Know the Birds...by Roger Tory Peterson; Land Birds Bird Guide. Land Birds East of the Rockies by Chester A. Reed; The Observer's Book of British Birds by S. Vere Benson; and What Bird is That? by C.A. Stebbins and R.C. Stebbins. There is also a lengthy run of 19th century ornithological periodicals. There are at least 120 issues of Ornithologist and Oologist published by Frank A. Webster from January 1884 through October 1893. There is also a small run of Birds: A Monthly Serial Designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life from 1897 through 1898. Other printed matter includes two copies of The Audubon Magazine, vol. I, no. 9 and vol. LXIV, no. 1. An item of interest is "Taxidermist's Note Book on Collecting Trips of Wm. J. Magee". The contents of the notebook include an index of birds collected by Magee in 1875; descriptions of collecting expeditions, procedures, and weather condition in the New England region in 1876; and general remarks for the season of 1882 and 1883.

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North American Dehydrating Corp

Manuscripts

Book No. 3, Minute Book of North American Dehydrating Corp., 1973-1984. Company: North American Dehydrating Corp.

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Serials (publications) -- Birds vol. III

Manuscripts

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