Scientist Emil O. Deere
<> Remembering the Bethany College Legacy Museum <>
<> Remembering the Bethany College Legacy Museum <>
- The Art of Taxidermy at Bethany College -
Taxidermy Collection
~ from Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966
[A primary part of the College's Natural History Museum]
[For those who do not understand what a "Natural History Museum" is,
go HERE to the Smithsonian's National Musuem of Natural History]
~ from Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966
[A primary part of the College's Natural History Museum]
[For those who do not understand what a "Natural History Museum" is,
go HERE to the Smithsonian's National Musuem of Natural History]
On the fourth floor of Old Main was Room 38 where the work of taxidermy was carried out by Deere with his ongoing classes through the years for decades. It was to his classes that Lydia would occasionally bring refreshments to the students. On this particular day she may have "setup her husband's class" for these photographs, showing some of the assignments on which they were working.
- Deere's Old Main Classroom Taxidermy Class -
(Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography)
1906-1925
An art form in itself, skilled and timely, taxidermy required one to be extremely familiar with anatomy, skinning, dissection, sculpture and painting as well as tanning. It was in this Old Main classroom that the three bison, the horse known as Dobbin, the two pelicans, countless other birds and animals were transformed through this art form and were first mounted for display at the Bethany College Museum.
Many of these items, part of the Bethany College Museum Natural History Collection, were moved to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, the destination for the college museum in the summer of 1966, due to the forthcoming razing of Old Main in 1968.
Many of these items, part of the Bethany College Museum Natural History Collection, were moved to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, the destination for the college museum in the summer of 1966, due to the forthcoming razing of Old Main in 1968.
(Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography)
1906-1925
- a younger Deere and his students in his Old Main Classroom engaged in skinning and dissection -
Courtesy granted to "SWEDES" to show Deere's taxidermy photographs by Bethany College Archives.
* * *
"Let Us Celebrate Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
"Let Us Celebrate Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
