Donald R. Dickey Personal Photo Album, ca. 1921-1926

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Donald R. Dickey Personal Photo Album, ca. 1921-1926

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Leatherette photographic album with 38 leaves, 138 mounted and 2 loose photographs. The photos, taken mostly by Donald R. Dickey, document his and his wife Florence's honeymoon in Maine and New Brunswick, where Dickey was photographing wildlife with stop action film equipment. In addition, about half of the photographs show images of the exterior and interior of the Dickey home and gardens in Pasadena, over the span of some years.

1 boxed photo album, 39 x 28 cm.

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

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Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932

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Donald Ryder Dickey (1887-1932) was an adventurous, pioneer wildlife photographer as well as an ornithologist and mammalogist. He was well known in his time for: his photographs (both still and moving) of birds and mammals; his lectures on wildlife; and eventually, for his substantial specimen collection of birds and mammals. Drawn to outdoor life in his childhood and youth, he considered this nothing more than a hobby until he experienced a serious heart attack in his senior year at Yale and wa...