[Rarebooks] FS: 1881 Bird Nest & Egg Protection Poster in our New Catalog

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1881 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
Bird's Egg Protection Poster.
Boston, 1881.

This represents a very early attempt to protect birds and their eggs- 
the Audubon Society, the longtime champion of birds and their nests, 
would not be founded until 1886, and in the 1880s there were no Federal 
laws and only a smattering of state laws, protecting songbirds and their 
nests and eggs.

"Protect the Birds and their Eggs! The Massachusetts Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asks the attention of all good citizens 
to the law of the Commonwealth for the protection of small birds and 
their nests, and it invites their co-operation in the enforcement of the 
same. The penalty is ten dollars for killing each bird, and for 
willfully destroying, disturbing or taking their nests or eggs the same 
sum... Parents and teachers are especially entreated to instruct their 
children not to bear any part in the killing and robbery of the innocent 
birds. Remember their service to man in protecting his crops. As 
Longfellow has said: 'They are the winged wardens of your farms, - Who 
from the cornfield, drive the insidious foes, - And from your harvest 
keep a hundred harms'."

The MSPCA was founded in 1868, the second-oldest humane society in the 
United States, and among those on its first board of directors were John 
Quincy Adams II and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

DESCRIPTION & CONDITION: Poster. 9.5"x15". Minor wear, light soil. 
[40660]

PRICE: $250

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