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Geese

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

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Geese, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3404
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flock of geese on a pond and on the shore in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Geese on Pasture, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3409
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a gaggle of geese in a pasture on a farm in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lady Harriet Grace Katherine Campbell, 03 July 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/24
Scope and Contents

Campbell writes that she and her husband are willing to donate the goose-swan hybrid to the Edinburgh Zoological Society and that she will wire the Secretary once it has been captured and brought to the Gardens. She invites Ewart to visit them at Garscube to see the birds on the river.

Dates: 03 July 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Magnus Spence, 30 March 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/39
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Spence states that he is enclosing a photograph of a bird believed to be a cross between a goose and a swan (photograph not present). He states he will let Ewart know if it should happen to breed with a goose.

Dates: 30 March 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Archibald Spencer Lindsay Campbell, 5th Baronet of Succoth, 11 July 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/25
Scope and Contents

Campbell writes that the goose-swan hybrid has been captured and that his keeper will bring it to the Edinburgh Zoo the following day.

Dates: 11 July 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Thomas Astbury, 29 October 1930

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/36/10
Scope and Contents Astbury writes that at the Textile Physics Laboratory at the University of Leeds thay have just begun an X-ray study of the structure of feathers, in the aim of revealing more about the constitutions of the keratins in general. He reports that the quill end of goose or hen feathers produces an X-ray photograph which is quite different from ones he has obtained from wool, hair, fingernails, spines and horn. However, he would like to know more about the structural and biological nature of all...
Dates: 29 October 1930

[Man Feeding Geese], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3408
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man feeding three geese at the edge of a pond in a field in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s