New York Zoological Society

William Horniday, Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn…

Director William Holiday, hire from the National Zoo where he was the [title]… established the Camp Fire Club around the Park and Society’s founding.

Harlow Brooks, a member of McAleenan’s hunting party and pathologist, was hired as one of the parks for veterinarian

Mention taxidermy – John Murgatroyd did it for them… member

Carl Rungis & NYZS collections to which McAleenan donated

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Rungis

Brooks

Murgatroyd

IMG_4137.pdf – plan for animal painting exhibits
IMG_4169.pdf – Doner list (JP Morgan donated)
IMG_4174.jpg + – Carl Runguis (also see list of paintings in exhibit 4167+), also wrote Simpson, in McAleenan hunting party
IMG_4180+ Jimmy Simpson letters
IMG_4188 – 4192 – Brooks, Brooks introduces Simpson
IMG_4195 – McAleenan
IMG_4190 – Camp Fire Club

New York Zoological Park

Indicative of conservation movement = taxidermy, paintings, photography – sent artists into the filed, including Ruth Brooks