Camels vs. dromedaries? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

I see on Ebay I can buy an "album" of quadrupeds for $102.50! plus
$2.50 shipping.  (No individual camel or dromedary card.)  Now if I
can get an NEA grant ...

Bill, I would like to have some written documentation beyond the web
images, especially for the date.  Can you give me a contact for the
website owner?  Or perhaps Northeastern Univ. can put me in
touch.  Or perhaps Topps Allen & Ginter?

Thanks,
Joel

At 4/3/2008 12:12 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>I collect cards like these, and was aware of the website from my
>interest in the hobby (the owner is doing a massive job of posting
>pictures of a number of scarce trading cards).
>
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> > Eureka!  Jesse, take note.  Bill, how did you know where to
> > find these?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 4/3/2008 11:35 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > >These are pictures from a set of trading cards issued about
> > 1888.  They
> > >were inserted in packs of cigarettes.
> > >
> > >Camel (note two humps)
> > >http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/z-ns-N41/N41-camel.jpg
> > >
> > >Dromedary (note one hump)
> > >http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/z-ns-N41/N41-drom.jpg
> > >
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> > > > In the early 19th century, might people have used the
> > word "camel"
> > > > to refer to one species (I am guessing to the
> > > > Bactrian) and "dromedary" to refer to the other species
> > (the Arabian)?
> > > >
> > > > The OED merely asserts that " a lighter and fleeter
> > variety of the
> > > > [Arabian] is known as the Dromedary."
> > > >
> > > > Or perhaps the distinction was made only in Salem, Massachusetts.
> > > >
> > > > In James Felt's _Annals of Salem_ (2nd ed., 1845 & 1849), he
> > > > describes several collections of animals exhibited there
> > in 1834.
> > > > Of one he writes "In the collection were ... camels;" of another
> > > > later in the year his complete description is "There is a similar
> > > > exhibition here. Of the animals were two dromedaries."
> > > >
> > > > In _The House of the Seven Gables_ (1851), Hepzibah's
> > first, and a
> > > > steady, customer at her cent-shop is a young schoolboy
> > who is fond
> > > > of gingerbread animals.  On one visit, Hawthorne writes, he "now
> > > > proposed to eat a camel."  The next day he "had signalized his
> > > > omnivorous prowess by swallowing two dromedaries and a
> > locomotive."
> > > > The day after that, when he reappears on an errand for
> > his mother,
> > > > Hawthorne reminds us who he is by writing "the little
> > devourer ...
> > > > of Jim Crow, the elephant, the camel, the dromedaries, and the
> > > > locomotive."
> > > >
> > > > So these two writers were making some distinction.  Was it the
> > > > number of humps?  Or the slimmer outline of the fleet dromedary
> > > > (seen in the profiles of a parade or a gingerbread treat)?
> > > >
> > > > Joel
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