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No date; likely 1953
Stamped on back, "WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE. Please credit photograph to the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK." Typewritten on back, "Complete Moa Group - Whitney Bird Hall." Typewritten form included, "THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 79TH STREET, NEW YORK 24, N.Y. RUTH NORTON SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, PHONE: TRafalgar 3-1300, EXT. 444, 311 AND 481. RELEASED FOR TED MALONE SHOW. Small Museum visitors register mixed reactions at seeing the extinct, flightless bird, the moa, in a new habitat group in the Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific Bird Life at The American Museum of Natural History. Reconstructed from a subfossil skeleton brought back from New Zealand by a Museum expedition, it is now considered the finest such specimen outside of that country. Completion of the Hall was marked by a dedication ceremony held on Thursday, January 29, 1953."
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
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