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buffalo hunting/collecting IMG_6725
Excellent NYZS resources – conservation
World’s Fair – display drawing IMG_0002
Seeming to lament the end of slavery, Hornady expresses anger at Black Americans’ ability to earn money and buy guns, which he claims they used for indiscriminate hunting. “The negro had money now, and the merchants–these men who had said let the n***** alone so long as he raises cotton and corn–sold him the guns, a for every black idler, man and boy, in all the South.” (110) -explain the choice to censor one word a not the other = tonal shift
Distinguish between north and south. “Our colored sportsman is gregarious at all times” as being more restrained in their hunting and evokes a condescending tone painting them to be simple and child-like (113)
Quoting Charles Askins
Southern Black Americans –
Profound racism “The negro belongs to a primative race and all such races have better eyes than white men whose fathers have pored over lines of black and white” (Wild Life 110)
Concerned about the shooting of songbirds and others – no wanting to take away hunting rights, but wants to control their hunting practices – “to make him amenable to the law that governs the white man” (113)
Concerned about the shooting of songbirds and others – no wanting to take away hunting rights, but wants to control their hunting practices – “to make him amenable to the law that governs the white man” (113)
From Roosevelt doc
- Hornaday – having learned about the near extermination of the buffalo; was directed to go west as soon as possible, went to Montana (145). 25 specimens (killed 24 and took a live calf that eventually died) (RB 150)
- To scientifically preserve the bison?, he killed them and brought them back to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (chief taxidermist), taxidermied them and set up a display; he wanted to fill a void in the collection, establish himself as the finest taxidermist, created a natural display (RB 150)
- Smithsonian images
Roosevelt
National Zoological Park of Washington
smithsonian’s national zoo and conservation biology institute
William Hornaday was a taxidermist and drove the creation of the Zoo. was then hired by NYZS to run the Park.
https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_9556
New York Zoological Society & Park
