Pencil and pastel studies of the wings and beak of a greater snow goose. Sheet includes four separate drawings: two views of outstretched wing (from above and from below) executed in pencil and pastel; pencil drawing of head with open bill viewed from the side; pencil contour drawing of bill viewed from above.
Pencil studies of a whooping crane or cranes, drawing the bird in different positions. Some drawings are close-ups of parts of the bird. Left margin of paper is demarcated with a vertical line and contains pencil notes.
Pencil drawing of seventeen birds representing three species. white hawk drawing (seven uppermost sketches) have some shading, while screaming hawk and Mexican cormorant drawings are contour drawings. Left sixth of paper demarcated with a vertical line, with extensive pencil notes that identify birds or give information on color and behavior.
Pencil drawing of White Ash tree. Study for tree later used in Victor H. Cahalane, "The Mammals of North America" (1946), in the entry on "Beaver," page 453.
Pencil sketch of a South Pacific island landscape. A rocky foreground shoreline stretches across the page, with a rocky cliff or mountain on the right side of the image. Extensive notes indicate color and tone and identify features of the scene; image also labeled throughout with numbers 1-6. Drawn during the 1934-1935 Templeton Crocker expediti...
Pencil drawing of the Unitarian church building in Geneseo, Illinois, in two-point perspective. Drawn by Francis Lee Jaques at six years old, in 1893 or 1894, "Lee Jaques" appears in large, three-dimensional letters running the length of ground beside the church, as if planted like a flower bed. A newspaper clipping is attached to the lower righ...
Two sketches of a prairie landscape, preparatory for a diorama background. Sketches labeled 7 and 6 (upper drawing) and 8 and 7 (lower drawing), indicating sequence of the drawings. Handwritten notes indicate species of trees, which are willows and cottonwoods. This sketch, along with four others, may be preparatory sketches for the Snow Goose d...