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Title
Drawing of a ground-sloth from the Natural History Museum
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a drawing of a ground-sloth from the Natural History Museum, [s.d.]. The ground-sloth is depicted standing on its hind legs while its front legs are propped up on the top branch of a tree at right. The sloth has a long nose and fur covering its entire body. Writing is visible at the bottom of the drawing reading, "C.R. Knight 22. Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23025 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47775
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23025
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47775.jpg
Subject
Museums
Museum buildings
Place
California
USA
Source
47775 [Accession number]
CHS-47775 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: NHIS-175; unidentified no: NHIS-176 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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