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Mrs. M. A. Maxwell standing in diorama at her Rocky Mountain Museum, Denver, Colorado

Photographer: William G. Chamberlain
Date: 1870s
Negative Number 112747

Beginning of blurb on reverse reads: “This Museum is the result of the untiring labor and artistic skill of Mrs. M.A. Maxwell, the proprietress, who, besides killing many of the Birds, Mammals and Reptiles, has prepared and arranged them all.”