1937 Print Skulls Shrews Skeleton Bones American Museum Natural History Vial FZ3 MED4 Comte de Nice

Comte de Nice

This is an original 1886 black and white halftone print of the roadside inn at Banderinha in Brazil

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1937 Print Skulls Shrews Skeleton Bones American Museum Natural History Vial FZ3 MED4 Comte de NiceThis is an original 1937 halftone print of vials of shrew skulls at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The caption begins, "From the tiny skulls of shrews stored thus in vials, all the way up to the whale is the province of the mammalogists. Over this range the museum has 115,000 specimens." Photography by Margaret Bourke White. Bourke White was born in the Bronx, New York. Her interest in photography was propelled by her father's