Mary Lenore Jobe on an expedition in the Canadian Rockies (second from left).
Entry/Object ID
2026.040.045
Description
Collection of black and white photographs of Carl and Mary Jobe Akeley, including photos from Mary Jobe's expeditions to the Canadian Rockies in the early 1900s and Cark and Mary Jobe's expeditions to the Congo in the 1920s. Also includes a photograph of taxidermized giraffes in the Akeley African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Some of the photographs in this collection are reproduction prints of the negatives in the Jim Streeter Collection (2026.037).
Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Akeley, Mary Jobe
Collection
Carol Kimball Collection
Acquisition
Accession
2026.040
Source or Donor
Carol Kimball
Acquisition Method
Transfer
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1906 - circa 1926
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Provenance
Notes
Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026
Copyright
Notes
The photograph of giraffes is under copyright of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
