1937 Print Beetles American Museum Natural History New York Squirrel FZ3 XGSC1 Captain Samuel Cook

Captain Samuel Cook

Nilsson ON THE REVERSE (but not shown): Rod La Roque

please note there is some light creasing on this lithograph

Moses Koenigsberg

Keywords specific to this image: F2A-1

1937 Print Beetles American Museum Natural History New York Squirrel FZ3 XGSC1 Captain Samuel CookThis is an original 1937 halftone print of beetles eating away at a squirrel and weasel skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The caption writes, "Better than the preparators these hungry beetles will clean the squirrel's skull and weasel's skeleton awaited by the mammalogists. Between jobs they are fed whale blubber." Photography by Margaret Bourke White. Bourke White was born in the Bronx, New York. Her interest in