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Title: Laura the parrot with maid in Basseterre, 1947 Accession Number: 1996.31.5780 Category: PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES Type: 35 mm color slide Maker: Mitchell, Carleton Place: Basseterre; West Indies Date: 1947 Materials: Description: 35 mm color slide; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; view of Laura the parrot; referred to as the "man-hating parrot of Basseterre" in "Islands to Windward"; seen with hotel maid; Basseterre, St. Kitts; West Indies; 1947; taken on a cruise to the West Indies aboard ketch yacht CARIB. Ref: "Carib Cruises the West Indies" by Carleton Mitchell; The National Geographic Magazine; January 1948; "Islands to Windward" by Carleton Mitchell; 1948. See also 1996.31.1390 -1392; 1996.31.1394; 1996.31.5780, 1996.31.5999.10; 1996.31.6001.4.

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