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30: 132:, to be the Massachusetts Audubon Society's first president. Women played a critical role in the organization, counting for half of its officers and serving as leaders of most of the local chapters. The group used its political power to have a Massachusetts law passed in 1897 outlawing trade in wild bird feathers as well as a federal law, the 1900 116:
held tea parties for the wealthy women of Boston where they urged them not to wear feathered hats and invited them to join a society for the protection of birds. Having gained the support of many of these fashionable women, Hemenway and Hall then organized meetings between leaders of the high society
136:, which prohibits the interstate shipment of animals killed in violation of local laws. The Massachusetts Audubon Society remains independent, but it helped to organize the National Association of Audubon Societies (incorporated in 1905), which later became the 112:. These plumes came from woodpeckers, bluebirds, owls, herons and warblers, thousands of which were killed each year. In 1896, Hemenway and her cousin 371: 376: 144: 159: 125: 319: 118: 90: 401: 165:
Hemenway Street was named in her honor. It runs between Boylston Street and Huntington Avenue in Boston's
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Kathy, Mason (2002). "Out of fashion: Harriet Hemenway and the Audubon Society, 1896-1905".
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and prominent New England ornithologists, paving the way for the creation of the
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In 1898, Hemenway donated $ 50,000 for the construction of the gymnasium at
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Hemenway was not a stranger to controversy and came from a family of
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to stay in her home, when Boston hotels refused to let him a room.
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John Singer Sargent
Augustus Hemenway
Boston
socialite
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Minna B. Hall
Augustus Hemenway
Gilded Age
plumes
Minna B. Hall
Massachusetts Audubon Society
William Brewster
ornithologist
Lacey Act
National Audubon Society
abolitionists
Booker T. Washington
Radcliffe College
Boston Women's Heritage Trail
Fenway
"John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Augustus Hemenway"
doi
10.1111/1540-6563.651014
S2CID
143084162
"Massachusetts Audubon Society Collection Guide Complete"
"No Headline | News | the Harvard Crimson"
"Back Bay East"
Geni: Harriet Lawrence Hemenway

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