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- Amateur naturalist and artist Genevieve Jones realized that James Audubon had not represented every nest and egg in The Birds of America. [1 of 3]
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today’s Very Short List:
design 16 Aug 2012
by Joy M. Kiser, librarian, writer, and editor for the U.S. Department of Justice, and author of America’s Other Audubon. WEBSITE BOOK
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- She started illustrating other nests and eggs herself but died just one month after issuing part one. Her mother then took up completing the artwork. [2 of 3]
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- What if your daughter started a beautiful book but died before finishing it? The Jones family spent eight years completing their loved one’s work. [3 of 3]
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- All images from America’s Other Audubon, by Joy M. Kiser: photo courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Natural History; illustrations courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.
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