Collection relating to Quex Park Red Cross Territorial Hospital and Quex Park Museum. Accession Number: AWM2018.995.4

Description

Commercial postcard showing a diorama of taxidermied cheetahs at the Quex Museum. The museum's founder, Percy Powell-Cotton, frequently travelled to Africa collecting specimens for his natural history museum, one of the first of its type to display animals in dioramas that replicated their natural environments.

Details

Accession Number
AWM2018.995.4
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Souvenir
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Measurement
Overall: 140 mm x 87 mm
Date Made
c 1914 - 1939
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

Conflicts

Accession AWM2018.995.4

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