[Robert Bean with Emperor penguins] [graphic] / [Brookfield Zoo archives]. [1935]

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[Robert Bean with Emperor penguins] [graphic] / [Brookfield Zoo archives]. [1935]

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Image shows Robert Bean with emperor penguins shortly after their arrival in a refrigerated railway car. Soon after reaching the zoo, all nine died from a fungal disease.

1 photograph : black-and-white.

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