Find at a Yard Sale
Hi all,
The picture below is of stuff the wife found at a yard sale. No big deal...
Let's see... We've got (left to right and front to back):
- Plate number 8 from "Birds of America" consisting of a number of terns.
- An article from the Sept. 1952 Atlantic Magazine entitled "Do-Nothing Day" by Wyman Richardson, M.D. This is an off-the-cuff discussion of a day of birding on Nauset Beach on Cape Cod.
- The next two are advertisements for bird books circa 1930s to the 1950s.
- The folder in the back right is the 1916 University of New York State Museum "Birds of New York" collection of 106 plates including the one below. That of Crossbills...
- And finally, there is a wonderful 31 page hand-written tutorial to friend, mentor, or perhaps an editor or publisher. The piece is dated around 1925, was composed in Dennis MA, and has what I would consider a very insightful passage...
"The more you go about among birds the more you will learn about these wonderful creatures and you will find as Mrs Porter says that they can reason."
Mulling by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: Inside Birding
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: All About Birding
Comments
"No big deal." I beg to differ!
I think some of those items are treasures! I knew someone who matted, framed and hung on one whole wall pictures from an old, old bird book. What a fantastic sight she created!
Posted by: Josie | July 6, 2009 5:19 PM