Obituary for Rosalie Barrow Edge, AKA “Mrs. Charles Edge”

Title: Obituary for Rosalie Barrow Edge, AKA “Mrs. Charles Edge”
Description: Rosalie Barrow Edge’s obituary reveals the motivations of wealthy urbanites’ involvement in the Progressive Era conservation movement: preservation by way of privatization–not through collective collaboration or government intervention. Barrow Edge became a noted conservationist upon purchasing 1,340 acres of land near Kempton, Pennsylvania. The land was previously a favored place for rural hunters to shoot hawks. On her newly purchased land, Edge formed the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first private preserve for birds of prey. Barrow Edge’s obituary also shows how would-be allies in the early conservation movement were sometimes at odds with one another. Barrow Edge fought with the Audubon Society over their policies which allowed for the killing of predator animals.
Creator: New York Times See all items with this value
Date: December 1, 1962 See all items with this value
Type: Newspaper
Format: jpg file
Subject: wildlife conservation, Audubon Society, class, gender See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: 20th centory
Rights: Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.

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