File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (frontispiece, crop).jpg

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Frontispiece from a volume of articles, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907 (Mershon, editor). The caption reads: "PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria)

Upper bird, male ; lower, female
Date Print date, 1907
Source Obtained from online scan at passengerpigeon00mers, crop with some border of scanned paper, for relative colour balance. Slightly rotated.
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes  (1874–1927)  wikidata:Q1871480 s:en:Author:Louis Agassiz Fuertes
 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
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Louis A. Fuertes; Louis Agassize Fuertes
Description American artist
Date of birth/death 7 February 1874 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1927 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ithaca Edit this at Wikidata Ithaca
Work period 1896–1927
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creator QS:P170,Q1871480
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