Passenger Pigeons: The Extinction of a Species

Passenger Pigeons: The Extinction of a Species at the WHS. "...A collection of 24 photographs of captive passenger pigeons from the late 19th century documents some of the last living specimens of the now-extinct bird and provides the substance for another Wisconsin Historical Images photo gallery. The photos, taken by J.G. Hubbard in Chicago in 1896, detail part of a passenger pigeon collection belonging to Frank M. Chapman, former curator of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The photographs show pigeons as chicks and adults, singly and in groups."