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| Photographer | Katherine Wolkoff |
| Title | Ruby- throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris. Taken from a cat by Ralph and Roger Grime. May 24, 1937 |
Block Island, located 11 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, is an important stopover for migrating birds.
One day in the early 20th century, Elizabeth Dickens, a native inhabitant of the island, began collecting the dead birds.
She stuffed them, catalogued them – and created her own project including 172 ornithological and handpicked ‘specimens’.
Every death is meticulously documented: crashed into the lighthouse, strolled too...
