Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 7w x 9.5h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Portraits
Date:
c. 1845
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
Portrait of John James Audubon (1785-1851), ornithologist, naturalist and artist, French-American ornithologist, is known for his studies, illustrations and documentation of all types of American birds. Audubon's most famous work, The Birds of America (1827-1839), is still renowned today. He identified 25 new species of birds and conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in America in the early 1800s.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 1, Folder: 46