Record ID:
312611
Accession number:
MA 3851.15
Published:
[Philadelphia], [1968-1970].
Credit:
Gift of E. B. White, 1971.
Description:
1 photographic print : col. ; 88 x 88 mm.
Notes:
Part of a collection of manuscript drafts and source material related to E. B. White's The trumpet of the swan. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
A Kodacolor Print on Kodak paper.
This photograph probably documents the Philadelphia Zoo's trumpeter swans, and was likely enclosed with a second snapshot (MA 3851.16) in a letter to E. B. White.
Inscriptions/Markings:
"One ducks for a tidbit as tother awaits the toss of a peanut. And the ducks high-tailing to get into the act" penned in the hand of Howard Cushman on the verso of the photograph.
Summary:
A snapshot of two trumpeter swans, one ducking its head below the water, at the edge of a man-made pond, and with several ducks swimming towards them.
Provenance:
Gift of E. B. White in 1971.
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