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Catalina Bird Park
Catalina Bird Park, or Wrigley Bird Park, was a 20th-century collection of exotic birds and game fowl kept on Santa Catalina Island (California), Santa Catalina Island, California, United States, under the sponsorship of the island's owner William Wrigley Jr. The Bird Park was located in Avalon Canyon along the Avalon, California, Avalon municipal boundary. History The Bird Park opened in approximately 1926. The Bird Park was meant to be an enticement to visit the island generally and did not produce any revenue. The steel girders from the original dance hall—the one that was replaced by the Catalina Casino—were reused in the construction of the Bird Park aviary in 1928. The resulting cage was in diameter and high. Former President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge paid a visit in 1930. Circa 1931, the aviary was open to tourists, admission was free, and there were more than 5,000 individual birds in the collection. Circa 1934, The Land of Sunshine, ''Out West'' magazine reported th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tichnor Brothers
Tichnor Brothers, Inc. was a Boston-based American graphic arts and printing company in operation from 1908 to 1987. Tichnor was one of the major producers of souvenir postcards of American cities in the 20th century, including large-letter postcards from 1936 to 1952. Tichnor and Curt Teich were rivals; in at least one case Curt Teich managers wanted to copy a view from a Tichnor postcard. The Tichnor Bros. archives, a valuable source for American architectural and cultural history, are held at Boston Public Library, which has also posted thousands of free-use images online at their Digital Commonwealth site and in Flickr albums. The founding brothers were Harry N. Tichnor (July 7, 1877 – July 26, 1911) and Louis Tichnor (September 11, 1879 – November 6, 1974). Harry and Louis were two of Morris and Dora (Weiss) Tichnor's eight children; the others were Annie, Rose, Caroline, Samuel, Rudolph and Fred. Morris and Dora were emigrants of Jewish ancestry from the Austro-Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
