Above: "Cardinal," a watercolor painting by Gilbert Boese, created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1940. Image from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Above: A WPA poster. Image from the Broward County Library.
Above: This photo was taken by the American Museum of Natural History, and is in the WPA book, Birds of the World: An Illustrated Natural History (Albert Whitman & Co., 1938; 1949 edition, p. 193). The description for it reads: "CARDINAL (Cardinalis Cardinalis). Length: 8 inches. Range: Eastern North America. This black-faced finch is familiar to many as the 'red bird.' Its brilliant cardinal red provides the fields and woodlands with startling patches of moving color." Image used here for educational and non-commercial purposes.
Above: A cardinal in West Virginia, during a recent winter. Photo by Brent McKee.
Wonderful!
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