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Mounted Fish
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration1938
U.S. National Archives
United States
Mounted fish on board with metal plaque: "ROCK BEAUTY / HOOD ISLAND / GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO / F.D.R. 1938 S.T.E." Wood mount is painted green. The fish was apparently caught by FDR and given to him by Stephen T. Early after it had been stuffed and mounted. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1947.93.100.
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- Title: Mounted Fish
- Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
- Date: 1938
- Location: Hood Island, Galápagos Archipelago of Ecuador
- Physical Dimensions: Mounted fish on board with metal plaque. Dimensions of fish: 11 1/2" long; dimensions of mount: 9" h x 16 1/2" w x 3 1/4" d
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