102 10 2888 https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/9b66664ae0ade48afa636ee5689c3045.jpg f734740184fcb61f42150d57ded86b8c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 7: Documentary History of Making Game Sanctuaries in National Forests, 1915-1928 (bulk 1915) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-07 Description An account of the resource Volume 7 documents Hornaday’s campaign to create wildlife sanctuaries in national forests. The “Hornaday Plan for Game Increase,” as it was known, launched in 1915 as the first official cause of Hornaday’s Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. Similar plans had been submitted as early as 1902 by Congressman John F. Lacey, and in 1911, the Boone and Crockett Club also proposed a plan to set aside land in national forests for game sanctuaries. Hornaday, however, hotly debated any suggestions of resemblance between his plan and the 1911 Boone and Crockett one, calling it as similar as the resemblance between a “three-year old corpse and a living man.” In addition to the vitality Hornaday presumed his plan would hold, a major difference was that the Boone and Crockett plan was a state initiative whereas Hornaday’s was a federal one. After kickstarting his campaign with an endorsement from Theodore Roosevelt at the 1915 annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society, Hornaday prepared for a speaking tour across the west to garner popular support. Between August and October, he travelled to Minneapolis, MN; Denver, CO; Cheyenne, WY; Salt Lake City, UT; Pocatello, ID; Helena, MT; Seattle and Tacoma, WA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, Pasadena, and Los Angeles, CA; Tucson, AZ; and Albuquerque, NM. He barnstormed from city to city, preaching the necessity of his plan in the face of mounting threats to wildlife. Along the way, he gained a number of influential supporters. In addition to most of the governors of the states where he spoke, these supporters ranged from Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Latter Day Saints, to Aldo Leopold, who had already been deeply impressed by Hornaday’s 1911 work, Our Vanishing Wildlife. Eventually, Hornaday’s plan was incorporated into the 1917 Chamberlain-Hayden bill. Yet in spite of the political and public support the plan received, it failed to pass Congress, with the opposition objecting to the issue of federal oversight. The plan’s failure was a tremendous disappointment to Hornaday, and he later wondered in his Thirty Years War for Wildlife, why the “disgusting fate of our campaign for big game sanctuaries in national forests … did not turn me against conservation causes for all subsequent time.” Volume 7’s contents were compiled by Edith Helen Franz, who served as Hornaday’s assistant (in addition to serving as the accountant for his Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund and the librarian for the New York Zoological Society). The items associated with this scrapbook were laid into the book but never mounted. They are displayed here in the order in which they were found by WCS Archives staff in 2012. Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-07-000-a Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 7, front cover Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Documentary history of making game sanctuaries in national forests. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 7 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Franz, Edith Helen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Scrapbooks Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original item in WCS Archives Collection 1007 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item may be protected by copyright. For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/b6261e0407c282aadab4213abeee44a2.jpg 2d10837281866a8db159221541f713b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-999-c Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, spine Description An account of the resource Spine title: The saving / of the / fur seal industry / Volume III Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Scrapbooks Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original item in WCS Archives Collection 1007 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item may be protected by copyright. For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/401e1bc640e993d74a05b4846c6dd29a.jpg 0bdc49477c9a1e68e1f6c21901cb00a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-999-b Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, back cover Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Scrapbooks Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original item in WCS Archives Collection 1007 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item may be protected by copyright. For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/01bf0f03eb79ca0bbad464f56c2f26c9.jpg 2f015bd89e11fd1b9ff58a343b2eb6c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-999-a Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, inner back cover Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Scrapbooks Type The nature or genre of the resource text Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original item in WCS Archives Collection 1007 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item may be protected by copyright. For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/6ff9439913ae335524122997fba0d462.jpg 8df1bdd82f3178158e28c377efeeba90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-020 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 20 Description An account of the resource Cards enclosed with item on page 25, volume 4. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliot, Henry W. Individual cards describing men who have been officially responsible for the ruin of the Alaska fur seal herd. 11 cards. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/e0a1d39b30f49be3a2d0dc43dba7d080.jpg b832fb01f2d2d31380a9344c9e951118 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-019 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 19 Description An account of the resource Cards enclosed with item on page 25, volume 4. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliot, Henry W. Individual cards describing men who have been officially responsible for the ruin of the Alaska fur seal herd. 11 cards. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/d7d1b92ecd67e00ee85a7334292bbe6c.jpg 16eff249e1e44ad3c13c31fbe22777d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-018 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 18 Description An account of the resource Cards enclosed with item on page 25, volume 4. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliot, Henry W. Individual cards describing men who have been officially responsible for the ruin of the Alaska fur seal herd. 11 cards. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/40dbbf4c62cea68e8906a90ef4ea69fa.jpg ed12890cb61d0b7c2bf00ebc0599c9e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-017 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 17 Description An account of the resource Cards enclosed with item on page 25, volume 4. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliot, Henry W. Individual cards describing men who have been officially responsible for the ruin of the Alaska fur seal herd. 11 cards. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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For rights and permissions, contact the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives, library@wcs.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg https://www.hornadayscrapbooks.com/files/original/00453e3ed566143e1cd2438f0a85e370.jpg ac6fdbacfbc0fe50ef9fcf72380b6f83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 6: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part III, 1894-1930 (bulk 1910) Description An account of the resource When William T. Hornaday joined in the fight to protect the Northern fur seal, he entered a decades-old battle concerning the overhunting of the species on and near the Pribilof Islands. Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-016 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 16 Description An account of the resource Cards continued from page 14, volume 6. Enclosed with page 25, volume 4. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliot, Henry W. Individual cards describing men who have been officially responsible for the ruin of the Alaska fur seal herd. 11 cards. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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Located 300 miles off the west coast of Alaska, the Pribilof Islands became the property of the United States in 1867, and they enticed enterprising businessmen who rushed to exploit one of the islands’ most prominent natural resources: fur seals. Seal hunting was an established and highly profitable business, and the islands were sought for their rookeries; additionally, during the 1880s, Canadian, American, and Japanese ships aggressively engaged in pelagic sealing to fuel the valuable industry. By the end of the nineteenth century, hunting had depleted the islands’ herds to near-extinction levels. Alarm over this situation developed into a complex, often bitter, international affair involving politicians, government officials, scientists, and other private citizens. For many years, the loudest voice among this last group of individuals belonged to Henry Wood Elliott, an artist and self-described naturalist who served in the 1870s as assistant treasury agent for the Pribilof Islands. Elliott, who was among the first to study and paint the Northern fur seal, also witnessed the species’ massacre in the face of overhunting, and he embarked on a militant crusade for governmental action to protect them. Elliott believed in an end not only to pelagic sealing—a belief supported by many scientists and by the federal Fur Seal Service—but also to managed seal harvesting on land. In his tireless campaign to promote his views, Elliott had become, as Hornaday would later put it, “in much disfavor among the Congressional and departmental enemies of the fur seal,” and Elliott began to despair of his cause. In 1907, feeling his campaign stalled, Elliott reached out to Hornaday for support. Hornaday readily took up the cause, backed by the Camp Fire Club, who agreed to make the issue an official club mandate. Initially, Hornaday’s strategy was to present himself as a nonpartisan figure. Attempting to set aside past history over the issue, he asked Elliott to remain in the background. In February 1910, Hornaday testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and recommended the elimination of the government’s lease of the Pribilof Islands to private companies, an end to pelagic sealing, and a ten-year closed season on land sealing. The bill passed with important provisions for the protection of fur seals. The leasing system was ended in 1910. Pelagic sealing was banned, and the so-called Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, became the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation. And yet, in spite of this success, the bill was eventually implemented without a fundamental element of Hornaday’s recommendations: the closed season on land sealing, which, contrary to Hornaday and Elliott, many government agents and scientists did not perceive as a threat to the herds. Outraged, Hornaday summoned Elliott from the shadows, and the two marched forward into what Hornaday called the “war of the greatest bitterness ever waged in any fight over a wild animal species,” involving months of angry exchanges via letters and publications as well as congressional hearings on the matter. In the end, in August 1912, Hornaday and Elliott emerged successful, with Congress enacting a five-year closed season. When this closed season expired in 1917, the fur seal population had grown to a healthy count of nearly a half million animals. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Hornaday Scrapbook Collection on the History of Wild Life Protection and Extermination illustrate Elliott and Hornaday’s campaign for fur seal protection. The books are composed largely of correspondence and memoranda written by Elliott, who obsessively documented the affair, even drawing up his own political cartoons and organizing a “card catalog” of those he considered enemies to fur seal protection. For Hornaday, who compiled these books in the 1930s with the assistance of H. Ernestine Bulger Ripley, the preservation of Elliott’s materials was a testament to the man he considered the true victor of this fight. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06 Wildlife Conservation Society Local metadata elements for the Wildlife Conservation Society Holding Institution Name of the institution which holds the analog material Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Digitization Specifications Detailed information about how digitization was done Camera: Canon EOS 6D with EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Master: 240 ppi 16-bit depth color TIFF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-06-015 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 6, page 15 Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliott, Henry W. to William T. Hornaday, 1910-06-30. Annotated. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The saving of the fur seal industry, 1909-1912. Part III. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Ripley, H. Ernestine (Harriet Ernestine), 1872- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Hornaday, William T. 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