May 30, 2010

Museum staff cleaning elephant skin


An entirely different take on cleaning an elephant from the style I posted once before. This time, with much less elephant filling.

New York City, NY
1933, photographer Thane L. Bierwert
from the American Museum of Natural History

4 comments:

Ms. Moon said...

They are cleaning a shadow.

Steph(anie) said...

That is a trip. Excellent find.

That Hank said...

Thank you, I really like this one. Mom's right. But can you imagine? "Hey Fred, let's go unroll that elephant."

leila said...

This makes me really really sad.