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Penguins

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Chinstrap penguin

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/24
Scope and Contents

A chinstrap penguin standing on some rocks next to the water at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Chinstrap penguin on a rock

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/7
Scope and Contents

A gentoo penguin standing alone on a rock at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Current Animal Correspondence

 File
Identifier: Coll-2099/2/4/8/1/2
Scope and Contents

Letters, mainly sent to Thomas Gillespie, which regard animals currently being in the RZSS collection in 1947. Topics in the letters include the high death rate in King Penguins, animal sponsorship, and a poem dedicated to Boko the chimpanzee.

Dates: 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Correspondence / 1940-1949 / 1947 / Animal Correspondence

Five chinstrap penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/11
Scope and Contents

Five chinstrap penguins stand by the water in their enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Five penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/12
Scope and Contents

A group of five penguins in their enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Gentoo penguin on log

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/5
Scope and Contents

A gentoo penguin standing on a log looking rather forlorn.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Group of Penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/1/1
Scope and Contents

Glass plate negative showing a group of eight king penguins gathered in an enclosure.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 1

Group of penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/2
Scope and Contents

A group of penguins gathered round a box in the penguin enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Keeper and penguin

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/32
Scope and Contents

the image of a keeper and penguin are obscured by damage to the photographic plate.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Keeper feeding humboldt penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/36
Scope and Contents

A keeper feeding humboldt penguins at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1915 - 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7