Description

an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island

frontispiece to Vol 2 by Roald Amundsen

with handwritten annotation 'A kind of Skate or Flair / Raja Oxyrhynchus major / An Bos antiquorum'

and material

One can see by looking at the woman on the left how tight the bodices of these dresses could be too

The Trocadero, Paris mb-code U1990891-18 an extinct bird native toThe Trocadero, Paris, 1893. The Palais du Trocadero was built for the 1878 World's Fair. Illustration from Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings, (The Werner Company, Chicago, c1893).

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