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William T. Hornaday’s Scrap­book Col­lec­tion made avail­able online

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pub­lished 08 April 2014 | mod­i­fied 08 April 2014
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The Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety (WCS) has digi­tised a col­lec­tion of scrap­books kept by William T. Hor­na­day, the first direc­tor of WCS’s Bronx Zoo. Ten of the scrap­books from The Hor­na­day Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Scrap­book Col­lec­tion are avail­able for pub­lic viewing.

William Temple Hornaday and bison calfThe Hor­na­day Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Scrap­book Col­lec­tion is a dig­i­tal project of the Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety Archives which doc­u­ments and pre­serves WCS’s sto­ried his­tory of sav­ing wildlife and wild places since its incep­tion in 1895 as the New York Zoo­log­i­cal Society.

This web­site makes avail­able ten of the four­teen scrap­books that com­pose William T. Hornaday’s self-​titled Scrap­book Col­lec­tion on the His­tory of the Wild Life Pro­tec­tion and Exter­mi­na­tion. The remain­ing four scrap­books have not been made avail­able in dig­i­tal for­mat because they con­tain sig­nif­i­cant amounts of copy­righted mate­r­ial. Like many scrap­books of this age, these books are very frag­ile and show signs of dete­ri­o­ra­tion. Digi­tis­ing does not pre­serve them, but it does allow for access to items with con­di­tion issues related to age. The web­site also pro­vides a biog­ra­phy on Hor­na­day, as well as infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and about the project to digi­tise the scrapbooks.

The pages appear online as they were found at the project’s start in 2012. Every effort was made to pro­tect their con­di­tion dur­ing the digi­ti­sa­tion process.
William T. Hor­na­day (18541937) was a pre­mière con­ser­va­tion­ist and pas­sion­ate defender of wildlife. Hor­na­day was a pio­neer in the early wildlife con­ser­va­tion move­ment in the United States. He was well known dur­ing his life­time for his sub­stan­tial roles in the worlds of zoos, nat­ural his­tory muse­ums, and wildlife con­ser­va­tion. He chose the site for and worked on the design of the New York Zoo­log­i­cal Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and served as its first direc­tor from the open­ing in 1899 until his retire­ment in 1929.



(Source: WCS press release, 07.04.2014)


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