Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers, [ca.1917-1945].
Collection Number: 3459
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers, [ca.1917-1945].
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3459
Abstract:
Includes lab and lecture notes taken by Pell while at Cornell University, sketches
and drawings, thesis and monographs.
Creator:
Pell, Stuyvesant Morris, 1905-1943.
Pell, Stuyvesant Morris, 1905-1943. (Title of work: Scribblings of an outdoor boy..)
Quanitities:
4.4 cubic feet.
8 mapcase folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
Stuyvesant Morris Pell was a specialist in conservation of natural resources and manager
of the 16,000 acre range of the Huron Mountain Club in northern Michigan. He was born
in New York City and received a B.S. from Cornell in 1939 and an M.S. in 1941. For
five years he was warden of the Pleasant Valley Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuary in
Lenox, Massachusetts, and he spent one summer as a naturalist and ranger in Acadia
National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Includes lab and lecture notes taken by Pell while at Cornell University with sketches
and drawings related to various courses; thesis, monographs, and notes on the common
snapping turtle, ca.1939; notebooks with photographs and commentary on wildlife including
a "Log of the Pleasant Valley Beaver Colony," 1932, "Log of the Survey of Southern
Sanctuaries," 1937, and others from Yosemite Field School, 1939, and from Acadia National
Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1940; broadsides, brochures, and pamphlets relating to wildlife
sanctuaries; prepared biology slides, dissecting kit, and field magnifying lens; original
manuscript, carbon copies, and galley proof of SCRIBBLINGS OF AN OUTDOOR BOY, an autobiography;
sketches and sketchbooks, pen-and-ink drawings and original watercolor paintings,
mostly of birds, wildlife, and camping scenes; also glass slides and photographs of
Pell's watercolors, scenes, trips, and wildlife.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Stuyvesant Morris Pell papers, #3459. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Huron Mountain Club
Pleasant Valley Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuary
Acadia National Park
Yosemite Field School
Places:
Lenox (Mass.).
Bar Harbor (Me.).
Subjects:
Naturalists.
Conservationists.
Birds in art.
Birds
Ornithological illustration.
Orithology.
Wildlife conservation.
Conservation of natural resources.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Paintings.
Autobiographies.
Drawings.
Sketches.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Student Papers
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Coursework
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Typed Paper: "An Analysis of the Food Habits and Preliminary Ecological Study of the
Common Snapping Turtle"
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1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Carbon copy of M.S. Thesis, "Notes on the Habits on the Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra
Serpentina (Linn.) in Central New York"
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Turtle Problems - Field Notebook.
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April-December 1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Turtle Problems - Notes, Articles and Correspondence
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1940-1941 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Thesis "Notes on the Habits on the Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra Serpentina (Linn.)
in Central New York"
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Zoology Department
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Wilson Ornithological Club Program
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1941-1942 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and notes
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Lecture Notes
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Box 1 | Folder 8-10 |
Mammology
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Aquatic Plants
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Box 1 | Folder 12-13 |
Forestry
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1940-1941 |
Box 1 | Folder 14-15 |
Aquatic Insects
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1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 16-17 |
Game Management
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1938-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Zoology
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Box 1 | Folder 18-22 |
Invertebrate Zoology
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1937-1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 23-24 |
Algae
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1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 25, 27-34 |
Botany
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1937-1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Biology
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Nature Study Teaching
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1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 36-38 |
Entomology
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1937-1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 39-43 |
Ornithology
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1937-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 44-46 |
Economic Entomology
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1939 |
Diplomas and Certificates
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Mapcase Folder 7 |
Diploma from St. Mark's School
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1923 | |
Mapcase Folder 7 |
Diploma from Cornell University, College of Agriculture, B.S.
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1939 | |
Mapcase Folder 7 |
Diploma from Cornell University, M.S.
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1941 | |
Mapcase Folder 7 |
Certificate from Phi Kappa Phi
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1938 | |
Series II. Field Work
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Field Notes and Notebooks
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Box 1 | Folder 47-49 |
"Log of the Pleasant Valley Beaver Colony" by S.M. Pell
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Scope and Contents
Includes photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 8-10 |
Notes, scrapbook, check lists, talks at Yosemite Field School
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1939 |
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook includes photographs.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Notes taken on Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Maine
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1940 |
Scope and Contents
Pell had a temporary summer job here. Includes photographs.
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Box 4 |
Log of the Survey of Southern Sanctuaries
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Box 4 |
2 small note books with bird records
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1917-1920 | |
Box 4 |
1 small note book
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Informational Materials
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Copy of "Report on Wildlife Studies at the Huron Mountain Club 1939-1942" by Richard
Manville
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August, 1942 |
Box 2 | Folder 2-4 |
Waterfowl Bulletins, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Biological Survey
and Department of Agriculture
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1915-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Mimeograph and printed materials
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Handwritten Notes
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Scope and Contents
Bird Breeding in Several States, Canada and the West Indies. Conservation Legislation
in Congress. Notes on plants and animal life
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Summer 1937 and Miscellaneous
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1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
"Field Mice (Genus Microtus;) Their Economic Status and Their Natural Enemies" by
S. Morris Pell. Notes, maps and articles.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
National Park Service, Predator Policy
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1939 |
Scope and Contents
Also "Death and Transfiguration in Delaware" by William Vogt, National Association
of Audubon Societies regarding mosquito control
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Acadia National Park Materials
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1937-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Includes fabric swatches for U.S. National Park Service Uniforms and Shirts
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Mapcase Folder 4 |
2 copies of Huron Mountain Club map, Marquette County, Michigan by S.M. Pell modified
after
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1942 | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
2 copies of Snipe Shooter's map of Shinnecock Bay, Long Island with annotations
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
6 posters advertising lectures by S. Morris Pell and 2 posters advertising the Pleasant
Valley Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuary
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Series III. Manuscript and Reprints
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Box 3 | Folder 1-11 |
Scribblings of an Outdoor Boy: Being the Reminiscence of Stuyvesant Morris Pell, Up
to the Year 1943 when,‡Having Reached the Age of 38 Years He Came to a Great Adventure
with Life
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1945 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, original typed manuscripts, 2 carbon copies, and galley proofs.
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Box 4 |
Scribblings of an Outdoor Boy: Being the Reminiscence if Stuyvesant Morris Pell, Up
to the Year 1943 when, Having Reached the Age of 38 Years He Came to a Great Adventure
with Life
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1945 | |
Scope and Contents
Finished Printed Book
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Box 4 |
Bird Lore
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1938 | |
Scope and Contents
Cover by Pell
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Series IV. Photographic Materials
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Box 4 |
Two Loose Photographs - Beavers
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Box 4 |
Postal Views
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Box 5 |
Wooden Box of 4"x3.25" glass plate slides
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Scope and Contents
167 plants, birds, and countryside scenes. For both Box 5 and 6 many of these sides
were issued by the Department of Public Education, Museum of Natural History (NYC).
Others bear the name of Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th Street, NYC.
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Box 6 |
4"x3.25" glass plate slides
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Box 6 |
35mm color slides
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Pell duck banding
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Dr. Loncope Housatonic River
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Sanctuary scenes
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Sanctuary Ducks
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Sanctuary Birds
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Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Sanctuary Beaver
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Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Lenox trips
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Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Sanctuary pictures (except apartment)
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Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Beaver drawings for children's story
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Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Sanctuary
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Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Duck backgrounds and watercolors
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Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Lecture Slides
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Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Pittsfield trout hatchery
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Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Charleston with W.P.
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1935 |
Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Charleston, with K.L.W.
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1936 |
Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Southern Trip - Birds, Great White Heron, Mallards
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1937 |
Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Southern Trip - Refuge Work
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1937 |
Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Southern Trip - Soil Erosion
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1937 |
Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Southern Trip - Ducktown
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1937 |
Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Southern Trip - Various
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1937 |
Box 7 | Folder 21 |
Penikese Island and Ithaca
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1938 |
Box 7 | Folder 22 |
Applied Ornithology
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Box 7 | Folder 23 |
Trips - Cape May, Sweet Briar, and Yosemite
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1938-1939 |
Box 7 | Folder 24 |
Negatives for Pell High trip
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Box 7 | Folder 25 |
Negatives for Yosemite Valley Research Reserve
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Box 7 | Folder 26 |
Yosemite trips out
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Box 7 | Folder 27 |
Yosemite trips
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Box 7 | Folder 28 |
Arcadia
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1940 |
Box 7 | Folder 29 |
Negatives for Huron Mountain
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Box 7 | Folder 30 |
Negatives for Huron Mountain
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Box 7 | Folder 31 |
Huron Mountain
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Series V. Artwork
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Box 4 |
Sketch book of bird and camping scenes
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1918 | |
Box 4 |
Scrapbook
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Box 4 |
11 small sketchbooks
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Box 9 |
23 watercolor paintings by Stuyvesant Morris Pell
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Box 10 | Folder 7 |
"The Tale of Almeek the Beaver" by S. Morris Pell
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
55 Folio of watercolors and pencil drawings
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1928-1931 | |
Mapcase Folder 2 |
17 Folio of charcoal drawings of animals
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Mapcase Folder 3 |
13 Folio of life drawings
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Mapcase Folder 4 |
4 30"x22" watercolor renderings on boards
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
1 16"x11" pen and ink color wash of the skeleton of Nyroca vallisneria, with skull
of Nyroca marila
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
2 pen and ink drawings of ducks
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
3 painted posters for events
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
1 16"x11" pen and ink rendering of Procellariiform profiles (beaks)
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Box 10 | Folder 1-4 |
14 15"x11" watercolor renderings of birds on boards
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Mapcase Folder 6 |
3 mounted watercolors of birds
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1931 | |
Box 10 | Folder 5 |
3 mounted watercolors of birds and 1 of horses
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1931 |
Box 10 | Folder 6 |
62 prints of pen and ink drawings of birds, waterfowl and hunting scenes
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Mapcase Folder 8 |
24 charcoal and crayon sketches of birds, fish etc. on brown paper
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Mapcase Folder 9 |
23 charcoal and crayon sketches of birds, fish etc. on brown paper
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Series VI. Scientific and Art Objects
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Case of prepared biology slides
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Box 3 | Folder 13-15 |
3 envelopes dissecting kits
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Box 8 |
Field magnifying glass with box
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Box 8 |
Dissecting kit in wooden box
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Box 8 |
2 printing blocks for cover of "Bird Lore" designed by Pell
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