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Bayne of Staten Island, who drew up the bill based on Hornaday’s recommendations and support, the law prohibited the sale and importation for sale of any species of wild game, regardless of where it had been killed. As Hornaday remembered it later in his <a href="https://archive.org/stream/thirtyyearswarfo002608mbp#page/n173" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thirty Years War For Wildlife</a>, the “acorn” that grew into the Bayne Bill was planted by a 1910 visit to Hornaday from a friend who told him of a plot by supporters of market hunting to abolish existing wildlife protection laws. “Well, then,” Hornaday reportedly declared upon learning of these plans, “damn their souls, we will give them the fight of their lives. We will introduce a bill to stop the sale of game, and carry the war right into the enemy’s camp.” Indeed, Hornaday charged ahead with his fight, and the bill passed the state senate 38 to 1 and the assembly unanimously. Hornaday’s militancy surfaces throughout the wildlife campaigns covered in volume 3 and particularly in his conflicts with the makers of automatic guns. To Hornaday, modern firearms were not only the greatest threat to American wildlife, they also robbed hunting of its sportsmanship. In 1911, he denounced the National Association of Audubon Societies for accepting a $125,000 gift from leading gun and ammunition manufacturers (a gift the Association eventually rescinded, to Hornaday’s delight). Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, he scrapped with the American Game Protective and Propagation Association (later the American Game Protective Association), a group sponsored by gun and ammunition manufacturers, over such issues as bag limits. Additional subjects featured in volume 3 include the protection of antelope in Montana and elk in Wyoming in 1911 and the sage grouse and quail in Iowa in 1917; Hornaday’s 1911 appeals to the Boy Scouts of America to help protect American wildlife; the late-1920s activities of conservation groups including the Midwestern Wild Life League, the Will H. Dilg League, and the Isaak Walton League of America; and the silver medal Hornaday received in 1927 from the Société nationale d’acclimatation de France. 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Prominent among them is the 1911 passage of the Bayne Bill in New York State. Named for Senator Howard R. Bayne of Staten Island, who drew up the bill based on Hornaday’s recommendations and support, the law prohibited the sale and importation for sale of any species of wild game, regardless of where it had been killed. As Hornaday remembered it later in his <a href="https://archive.org/stream/thirtyyearswarfo002608mbp#page/n173" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thirty Years War For Wildlife</a>, the “acorn” that grew into the Bayne Bill was planted by a 1910 visit to Hornaday from a friend who told him of a plot by supporters of market hunting to abolish existing wildlife protection laws. “Well, then,” Hornaday reportedly declared upon learning of these plans, “damn their souls, we will give them the fight of their lives. We will introduce a bill to stop the sale of game, and carry the war right into the enemy’s camp.” Indeed, Hornaday charged ahead with his fight, and the bill passed the state senate 38 to 1 and the assembly unanimously. Hornaday’s militancy surfaces throughout the wildlife campaigns covered in volume 3 and particularly in his conflicts with the makers of automatic guns. To Hornaday, modern firearms were not only the greatest threat to American wildlife, they also robbed hunting of its sportsmanship. In 1911, he denounced the National Association of Audubon Societies for accepting a $125,000 gift from leading gun and ammunition manufacturers (a gift the Association eventually rescinded, to Hornaday’s delight). Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, he scrapped with the American Game Protective and Propagation Association (later the American Game Protective Association), a group sponsored by gun and ammunition manufacturers, over such issues as bag limits. Additional subjects featured in volume 3 include the protection of antelope in Montana and elk in Wyoming in 1911 and the sage grouse and quail in Iowa in 1917; Hornaday’s 1911 appeals to the Boy Scouts of America to help protect American wildlife; the late-1920s activities of conservation groups including the Midwestern Wild Life League, the Will H. Dilg League, and the Isaak Walton League of America; and the silver medal Hornaday received in 1927 from the Société nationale d’acclimatation de France. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-03 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 1007-04-03-009-h Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 3, page 9h Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Wild life and newspapers. New York Globe, 1911-04-04. Untitled clipping beginning: The assembly to-day passed. New York Tribune, 1911-06-15. Prohibit sale of game birds. Philadelphia Record, 1911-03-26. Sale of game. Lockport Union-Sun, 1911-04-08. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Game protection. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 3 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Hornaday, William T. 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Prominent among them is the 1911 passage of the Bayne Bill in New York State. Named for Senator Howard R. Bayne of Staten Island, who drew up the bill based on Hornaday’s recommendations and support, the law prohibited the sale and importation for sale of any species of wild game, regardless of where it had been killed. As Hornaday remembered it later in his <a href="https://archive.org/stream/thirtyyearswarfo002608mbp#page/n173" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thirty Years War For Wildlife</a>, the “acorn” that grew into the Bayne Bill was planted by a 1910 visit to Hornaday from a friend who told him of a plot by supporters of market hunting to abolish existing wildlife protection laws. “Well, then,” Hornaday reportedly declared upon learning of these plans, “damn their souls, we will give them the fight of their lives. We will introduce a bill to stop the sale of game, and carry the war right into the enemy’s camp.” Indeed, Hornaday charged ahead with his fight, and the bill passed the state senate 38 to 1 and the assembly unanimously. Hornaday’s militancy surfaces throughout the wildlife campaigns covered in volume 3 and particularly in his conflicts with the makers of automatic guns. To Hornaday, modern firearms were not only the greatest threat to American wildlife, they also robbed hunting of its sportsmanship. In 1911, he denounced the National Association of Audubon Societies for accepting a $125,000 gift from leading gun and ammunition manufacturers (a gift the Association eventually rescinded, to Hornaday’s delight). Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, he scrapped with the American Game Protective and Propagation Association (later the American Game Protective Association), a group sponsored by gun and ammunition manufacturers, over such issues as bag limits. Additional subjects featured in volume 3 include the protection of antelope in Montana and elk in Wyoming in 1911 and the sage grouse and quail in Iowa in 1917; Hornaday’s 1911 appeals to the Boy Scouts of America to help protect American wildlife; the late-1920s activities of conservation groups including the Midwestern Wild Life League, the Will H. Dilg League, and the Isaak Walton League of America; and the silver medal Hornaday received in 1927 from the Société nationale d’acclimatation de France. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1007-04-03 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 1007-04-03-999-c Title A name given to the resource William T. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Volume 4: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part I, 1890-1930 (bulk 1903-1912) 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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-999-b Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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/e63993a5b3dd02e566f56ce62a3f3c7c.jpg 96cfbc32db99622273670508ed25cc37 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 4: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part I, 1890-1930 (bulk 1903-1912) 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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-000-a Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, front 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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. 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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. 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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/fed028c481ac538c5bede87ce9df12af.jpg 47cee2ff5e0c94f02c4bcf2c2d7c310b 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 4: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part I, 1890-1930 (bulk 1903-1912) 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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-000-b Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, inner front 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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/1917eb707cd88d6196a69a8a8328cd7b.jpg 7c06aa4c710d04b1dc219802527f4f48 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 4: The Saving of the Fur Seal Industry, 1909-1912. Part I, 1890-1930 (bulk 1903-1912) 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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-001 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, page 1 Description An account of the resource Scrapbook page contains no items. 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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. 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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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-010 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, page 10 Description An account of the resource Scrapbook page contains no items. 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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. 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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 1007-04-04 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 1007-04-04-100 Title A name given to the resource William T. Hornaday wildlife conservation scrapbook, volume 4, page 100 Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. Elliott, Henry W.. Memorandum of facts relating to the padded fur seal census for 1909, 1910-03-14. 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 I. William T. Hornaday scrapbook collection on the history of wild life protection and extermination. Volume 4 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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