Parker GH at Audubon Community Nature Center Jamestown, NY

[Dean Romig]

Interesting that the Audobon Society would even display, much less to allude to the fact that the shooting birds played a major role in these collections, despite the fact that that's exactly how John James Audibon collected birds for his world-famous paintings.

Thanks Sara for this thread.

Do you have a picture of the entire caption with the Parker?





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[Sara LeFever]

Russell: Thank you for sharing that! It made me think of our library in Westfield, NY, which has a large collection of taxidermy birds. There are glass cases of smaller birds, and the larger ones are displayed around the library.

Their website says:

Our Victorian bird collection features 255 varieties from North and South America from 1845 – 1872 which have all been cleaned, classified, and identified by Dr. John Rapple om 2018.

In the early 1900s HW Mossman preserved and donated most of the taxidermied mammals in the Patterson Library, with the help of taxidermist Arthur Becker of Brocton. Mossman was a student of Westfield Academy at the time and later became a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Americana. We have a red squirrel, a red fox, a raccoon, an albino squirrel (from Ed Besch), a skunk, a chipmunk, two golden eagles, two loons, an Albatros, 2 pheasants, a white owl, a white dove, four ducks and a seven foot sailfish.

Link: https://www.pattersonlib.org/birdcollection/

Dean: I do not have any more photos of the Audubon display. I won't be back home until late Winter/early Spring, but I can put it on my list to visit. I'll see if I can email them to get some more details, and maybe ask to see it up close.
Jamestown also has the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, which I need to see again.

Sara

[Sara LeFever]

I did take a look at that photo again, and I thought this little snippet was nice.