Mabel Osgood Wright
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Mabel Osgood Wright was an American writer and conservationist. She was an early leader in the Audubon movement who wrote extensively about nature and birds.
Audubon Society Portrait
Mabel Osgood Wright photographed by her husband James Osborne Wright
Florence Merriam Bailey
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Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer. Between 1890 and 1939, she published a series of field guides on North American bird life. These guides w
Mabel Osgood Wright
…member of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1895, and was one of the first three women raised to elective membership in 1901. Joining her were Florence Merriam Bailey and Olive Thorne Miller. Wright pioneered bird protection by establishing and designing Birdcraft Sanctuary in 1914, near her home in Fairfield. She…
Merriam in 1904
Bailey's 1886 yearbook photo from her time at Smith College.
Bailey and several other individuals gathered at Lake Placid, New York
Bailey in 1916