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A giant lobster
Title
A giant lobster
Description
Back caption: A Giant Lobster. 38 inches long; weight 21 pounds. Captured off Sandy Hook, N. J. Received New York Aquarium Sept. 1913. The longest known specimen.
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-723
A small aquarium with water plants
Title
A small aquarium with water plants
Description
Front caption: How to care for an Aquarium. Use pure water, which should not be changed; it is better to introduce water plants, which will supply oxygen for aeration. Put fine washed gravel or coarse sand in the bottom to hold roots of the plants. Keep the aquarium in the light but not in sunshine; it should be in a room where the temperature is uniform, 50 to 60 degrees. A ten-gallon aquarium is easier to manage than one of smaller size. Do not crowd the specimens; a few small fishes will thrive better than several large ones. A rectangular or round aquarium is better than a globe. Feed moderately as waste food will foul the water. It is best to buy prepared foods. Put in a few fresh-water snails to eat green moss off the glass, and a couple of tadpoles to help clean up waste food. Take out refuse with a rubber syphon. Destroy fishes which become diseased. Get an aquarium book and study important details; the New York Aquarium can supply "The Care of Home Aquaria" for 25 cents a copy.
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still image
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Postcards
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2016-pc-725
Alligator and Snapping Turtle, or, Alligator and Spotted Turtle
Title
Alligator and Snapping Turtle, or, Alligator and Spotted Turtle
Description
Front caption: How to care for Turtles and Small Alligators. Cold-blooded reptiles such as turtles and alligators cannot thrive in captivity during the winter months without a temperature of 75 to 85 degrees. They require permanently warm water and also a dry place upon which they can crawl to enjoy the heat of the sun. Some kinds of turtles feed only under water, but for most of them the water need be only a few inches deep. Alligators and snapping turtles are flesh eaters and may be provided with minnows, frogs, tadpoles, worms, grubs, crayfish, shrimps, small crabs, either live or dead. They will also eat chopped meat, fish, clams and oysters. Many kinds of turtles will eat the above foods,as well as snails, small aquatic mollusks and insects. Others like tender green vegetables such as tomatoes, lettuce, celery and various water plants. The wood turtle, box tortoise and other kinds usually found on dry land, eat berries and mushrooms as well as many of the foods already mentioned. Turtles should be supplied with a variety of foods until those most suitable are ascertained. A Madagascar tortoise at the New York Aquarium has long been fed on bits of apple, peach and banana. Turtles and alligators will feed freely enough when their quarters are kept permanently warm. They need access to sand, earth, warm water and sunshine.
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still image
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Postcards
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2016-pc-757
Black angel fish
Title
Black angel fish
Description
Back caption: Black Angel Fish. Florida and West Indies. Reaches a length of 2 feet. Migrates north to New Jersey.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-735
Blue crab
Title
Blue crab
Description
Front caption: Blue Crab--New York Aquarium
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-741
Broad-headed cichlid
Title
Broad-headed cichlid
Description
Back caption: Broad Headed Cichlid. Aequidens latifrons. One of the better known aquarium fishes from South America. Although handsome, it is somewhat disposed to fight.
Type
still image
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Postcards
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2016-pc-783
Brook trout, New York Aquarium
Title
Brook trout, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Brook Trout. The most beautiful and best known of American trouts.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-711
Butterfly fish
Title
Butterfly fish
Description
Front caption: Butterfly fish, New York Aquarium
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-699
Crescent fish
Title
Crescent fish
Description
Back caption: Crescent Fish / Pterophyllum scalare. One of the most handsome of small aquarium fishes. A native of the Amazon River.
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-767
Crimson sea anemone and channelled whelk
Title
Crimson sea anemone and channelled whelk
Description
Back caption: Crimson Sea Anemone and Channelled Whelk. North Atlantic coast. The whelk spawned its string of egg-cocoons 17 inches long in 11 days. The mother whelk is 8 inches in length.
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still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-733
Eigenmann's gymnotus
Title
Eigenmann's gymnotus
Description
Back caption: Eigenmann's gymnotus / Eigenmania virescens. A peculiar species which propels itself almost entirely by a long fin attached to the lower surface. A relative to the well-known Electric Eel, a native of South America.
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-787
Elephant seal, New York Aquarium
Title
Elephant seal, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Elephant Seal. Guadalupe Island. West coast of Mexico. A nearly extinct species. Reaches a length of 20 feet.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-715
Feeding the crocodile
Title
Feeding the crocodile
Description
Front caption: Feeding the Crocodile -- New York Aquarium
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-687
Flying characins
Title
Flying characins
Description
Back caption: Flying Characins / These small fishes, Gasteropelicus and Carnegiella strigata, are true flying fishes capable of skimming over the water for short distances. They are natives of South America.
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-769
Frogs and salamanders
Title
Frogs and salamanders
Description
Front caption: How to care for Frogs and Salamanders. These animals may be kept in aquaria or other vessels provided with sufficient water to cover them. Provision must be made for space upon which they can rest when out of water. Pieces of damp moss are excellent for salamanders. Frogs will rest on projecting stones or blocks of half submerged wood. Large salamanders require running water. Small varieties may be kept in still water changed daily in winter and oftener in summer, and maintained at a temperature of 68 to 75 degrees Fahr. Frog tadpoles may be kept in balanced aquaria, two to each gallon of water. Specimens fed live food can catch their prey better in shallow water. The common newt accepts food at all seasons of the year. Most salamanders and frogs are cannibals and only those of approximately the same size should be placed together. Frogs in the tadpole stage eat aquatic plants, also chopped fish, liver and meat. Adult frogs eat every moving object they can swallow- earthworms, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, etc.-and in captivity will also take mealworms dropped in the water and strips of raw beef dangled before them on a stick. Very young salamanders thrive on the white worm. (Enchytraeus) and larger ones eat mealworms, earthworms, insects and small mollusks--snails, slugs, etc. When taught to eat from a feeding stick they will take chopped fresh beef, fish and shellfish.
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-755
Giant grouper
Title
Giant grouper
Description
Back caption: Giant Grouper / Florida and West Indies. A good food fish. Reaches a weight of 400 pounds.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-763
Giant leatherback turtle, New York Aquarium
Title
Giant leatherback turtle, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Leatherback Turtle. Captured at Belmar, New Jersey. Weighed 840 pounds--the largest on record.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-713
Giant snapping turtles
Title
Giant snapping turtles
Description
Back caption: Giant Snapping Turtles. Lower Mississippi region. Largest fresh-water turtle. Greatest weight 150 pounds. Jaws very powerful. Used for food.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-745
Glass fish
Title
Glass fish
Description
Back caption: Glass Fish / Ambassis lala. A remarkable, nearly transparent fish from the East Indies. The internal details of anatomy can be plainly seen.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-775
Green and spotted moray
Title
Green and spotted moray
Description
Back caption: Green Moray, Spotted Moray. Florida and West Indies. Active and voracious. Green Moray reach a length of 9 feet.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-743
Green moray, New York Aquarium
Title
Green moray, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Green moray. Florida and West Indies. Active and ferocious. Reaches a length of 9 feet.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-703
Hermit crabs
Title
Hermit crabs
Description
Back caption: Hermit Crabs / These crabs live in empty sea shells, which they carry with them, moving into larger shells as they increase in size.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-729
How to care for salt water aquarium
Title
How to care for salt water aquarium
Description
Front caption: How to care for salt water aquarium. Water and marine plants must be used with marine animals. Loss through evaporation may be replaced with fresh water from the faucet as most of the original salts remain. Water may be aerated by removing a little and allowing it to fall back from a height of several inches, or may be siphoned off from the bottom and used again after filtering through cheesecloth. The best plants are sea lettuce and red algae. Sea lettuce should be buoyed with bits of cork to cover most of the surface and allowed to hang down on the sides nearest the light. Clean white sand or pebbles and a few stones should be / placed on the bottom. Round glass aquaria are best and an 8-gallon jar most desirable. No direct sunlight should strike the aquarium in summer, little in winter. Northern white coral, two or three each of brown and white anemones, prawns and minnows, will thrive, with a small clam to clarify, and half dozen mud snails for scavengers. Very small crabs and mussels may be introduced, also barnacles and tube-dwelling worms. Four animals to the gallon are enough. Desirable food is chopped clams, mussels, dried shrimp or dessicated codfish after soaking out the salt. Uneaten food should be siphoned off and dead animals and plants promptly removed.
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still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-751
Interior view -- New York Aquarium
Title
Interior view -- New York Aquarium
Description
Front caption: Interior View -- New York Aquarium
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-691
Large green turtle
Title
Large green turtle
Description
Front caption: Large Green Turtle (Weight 313 lbs.) -- New York Aquarium
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still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-689
Large groupers
Title
Large groupers
Description
Back caption: Large Groupers. Florida and West Indies. Yellow-fin, Red and Nassau groupers. All important food fishes. Greatest weight 50 pounds.
Type
still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-737
Main floor view, New York Aquarium
Title
Main floor view, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: New York Aquarium. Open daily. Free. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. April-October. 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. November-March. Closed Monday forenoons. Reached by elevated, surface of subway lines running to South Ferry.
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still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-801
Manatee or sea cow
Title
Manatee or sea cow
Description
Front caption: Manatee or Sea Cow -- New York Aquarium
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-681
Mexican swordtail
Title
Mexican swordtail
Description
Back caption: Mexican Swordtail / Xiphophorus helleri. One of the better known species of small aquarium fishes which gives birth to active young. The male is distinguished by a long sword-like process on the lower part of the tail.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-773
Mud springer
Title
Mud springer
Description
Back caption: Periophthalmus koelreuteri. A remarkable fish that spends much of its time out of water in pursuit of insects. It is here shown with its eyes protruding from the water in a frog-like fashion. A native of West Africa.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-781
Muskallunge
Title
Muskallunge
Description
Back caption: Muskallunge. Northern United States and Canada. Largest of the pike family.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-721
New York Aquarium -- Battery Park
Title
New York Aquarium -- Battery Park
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still image
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-649
New York Aquarium, Battery Park
Title
New York Aquarium, Battery Park
Description
Back caption: Opened as an aquarium under city management in 1896. Transferred to the New York Zoological Society in 1902. Averages about 5,000 specimens of 200 species. Average daily attendance since 1902, 5,500. Attendance 1927, 2,239,305. Open daily. Free Hours 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., October-March; 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., April-September.
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Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-799
New York Aquarium, Battery Park
Title
New York Aquarium, Battery Park
Description
Front caption: Erected 1807, by U.S. Government as a fort, called Southwest Battery. After War of 1812 called Fort Clinton. In 1822 ceded to N.Y. City and used as place of amusement, called Castle Garden, seating capacity 6000. Gen. Lafayette received here in 1824, President Jackson 1832, President Tyler 1843, Louis Kossuth 1851, Jenny Lind first sang here in 1850 under the management of P. T. Barnum. Used as landing place for immigrants from 1855 to 1891. Opened as an Aquarium, under city management in 1896, and transferred to N.Y. Zoological Society in 1902. Largest Aquarium in the World; contains 7 large floor pools, 94 wall tanks and 25 smaller tanks. Average daily attendance 4,551. Open daily. Free. Hours 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Winter; 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Summer. Closed Monday forenoons.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-651
Octopus
Title
Octopus
Description
Back caption: Octopus. All temperate and tropical seas. Largest known specimen 28 feet across the arms. Changes color instantly.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-747
Octopus -- New York Aquarium
Title
Octopus -- New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Octopus or Devil Fish. From Bermuda. A Pacific species--is 28 feet across the arms.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-707
Pearl danio / striped danio
Title
Pearl danio / striped danio
Description
Back caption: Zebra and Pearl Danios / Brachydanio rerio and albolineatus. These two species, native to India, are among the most popular of small aquarium fishes.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-765
Pike killie
Title
Pike killie
Description
Back caption: Pike Killie / Belenesox belizanus. A ferocious but small fish which gives birth to active young. Sometimes kept in home aquaria. A native of Central America.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-777
Piranha
Title
Piranha
Description
Back caption: Piranha / Serrasalmo rhombeus. A small but dangerous species. In its native habitat it is known to attack human beings in packs. The teeth are so sharp that it is enabled to bite large chunks of flesh with ease.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-785
Porpoises
Title
Porpoises
Description
Back caption: Porpoises. Captured at Cape Hatteras, N.C. Porpoises are air breathing, milk giving, warm blooded aquatic mammals of the whale order. These are the only specimens of their kind in captivity.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-727
Queen trigger fish
Title
Queen trigger fish
Description
Front caption: Queen Trigger Fish -- New York Aquarium
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-685
Queen trigger-fish
Title
Queen trigger-fish
Description
Back caption: Queen Trigger-Fish / From a painting by Chas. R. Knight / Florida and West Indies. Shows four different phases of color. Can change color instantly.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-717
Sea horse
Title
Sea horse
Description
Front caption: The Sea Horse (Hippocampus hudsonius) is found along the Atlantic Coast from Massachusetts to Florida. It reaches a length of nearly seven inches. The largest species known, inhabiting the west coast of Mexico, attains a length of twelve inches. The eggs of the sea horse are carried in a pouch by the male until hatched. The sea horse is the only fish with a grasping tail. It is usually brownish in color, but specimens have been received which were entirely yellow. The head is horse-like in appearance. The entire fish is enclosed in a bony coat of mail, inflexible except in neck and tail. The specimens exhibited in the New York Aquarium are captured late in summer in the bays of Long Island and New Jersey. They are kept in a tank of flowing sea water and are fed on minute crustacea called Gammarus, gathered from sea weed along the ocean beaches. The sea horse requires live food and will not live without it. It has not yet been successfully kept in small aquaria. Being strictly marine, it cannot live in fresh water. Dealers in aquaria supplies do not attempt to keep it. Many of the sea horses kept in the New York Aquarium have bred in captivity, but the young have never been raised, as suitable live food has not yet been discovered for mouths so small as those of young sea horses.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-753
Sea horse -- New York Aquarium
Title
Sea horse -- New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Sea-Horse / Atlantic coast. Sometimes found in New York bay. One of the few fishes with a grasping tail. Grows seven inches long.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-705
Sergeant major, New York Aquarium
Title
Sergeant major, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Butterfly fish. From Florida and the West Indies. Sometimes called four-eyes.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-701
Shark and shark suckers
Title
Shark and shark suckers
Description
Back caption: Sand Shark with Shark Suckers / Shark-suckers attach themselves to Sharks by a suction disc on top of the head.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-761
Short-nosed gar, New York Aquarium
Title
Short-nosed gar, New York Aquarium
Description
Back caption: Short-Nosed Gar. Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. Related to extinct Ganoid fishes.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-709
Slender cichlid
Title
Slender cichlid
Description
Back caption: Elongate Cichlid / Crenicichla lepidota. A handsome fish not common in household aquaria. Native of South America.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-779
Spade fish
Title
Spade fish
Description
Back caption: Spade fish. From Florida and West Indies. Reaches a weight of 20 pounds.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-731
Spiny lobster
Title
Spiny lobster
Description
Back caption: Spiny Lobster. From Florida and West Indies. Much used for food. Lacks the formidable claws of the northern lobster.
Type
still image
Genre
Postcards
Local Identifier
2016-pc-749

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