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Scope and Contents This collection contains an eiderdown robe. There is a dry cleaning ticket that accompanies the robe, "2/18/52, Mrs. J.A. Griswold Jr. of West Valley Road, Stafford-Wayne, PA. Lamb Robe, valued at three-hundred dollars." The charge to dry clean was six dollars. On the back of the ticket in pencil is written, "Griswold curator at Philadelphia Zoo." The Eider duck is a sea-duck, which is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. The eiderdown are...