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[Martha Maxwell posing with habitat grouping, Mrs. M.A. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum, Boulder, Colorado] [graphic].
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Creator
Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison)
Title
[Martha Maxwell posing with habitat grouping, Mrs. M.A. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum, Boulder, Colorado] [graphic].
Publisher
[Denver : Chamberlain's Photographic Rooms]
Publisher
Denver. 1875
Date
c1875
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen mounted on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description
Shows Mrs. Martha Maxwell standing with stuffed animals and birds arranged in a life-like, wild landscape display at the Colorado museum.
Is part of
Mrs. M.A. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum Series. No. 14
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Photographer from duplicate series in the collections of the Denver Public Library.
Name of publisher inferred from descriptive text on verso of stereograph.
Martha Maxwell opened her Rocky Mountain Museum in 1874 in Boulder, Colorado, and moved it to Denver in 1876. She hoped her museum would advance scientific education, but also display curiosities and other amusements to attract the general public.
For similar views of Martha Maxwell's displays, see Centennial Photographic Co. stereographs.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Maxwell, Martha, 1831-1881 -- Portraits.
Mrs. M.A. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum (Denver, Co.)
Animals.
Birds.
Natural history.
Taxidermy.
Museums -- Colorado -- Boulder.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Exhibitions [P.2007.12]
Accession number
P.2007.12
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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