2010.95.57

Collection Date: May 14, 1932
7 in HIGH x 5 in WIDE x 0.8125 in DEEP
Los Angeles Co.

Boquet Canyon

Gift of the Walt Disney Family Foundation
2010.95.57


Seven (7) butterfly in a Riker Mount which is a thin, glass-topped, cotton-filled exhibition case.  Brown with brown spots on outer edge of lower wing. The following description is from left to right and top to bottom: The fourth and seventh butterflies are folded and the underside is white with brown spots.  The sixth and seventh butterfly is female and the rest are male. Verso: A dark pink stamp that has a box with the following information inside: "Collection of Clay Ward Inglewood-California NAME [line] on DATE [line] LOCATION [line]" In black handwritten ink on the NAME line: "Heodes Chrysophanus xanthoides" In black handwritten ink on the DATE line: "May 14, 1932" In black handwritten ink on the LOCATION line:"Boquet Canyon Los Angeles , Co. Calif" Below in hand written black ink is "Great Copper". Male and female symbols are stamped below in pink that correspond to the butterflies on recto.

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