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This talent was what would separate her work from others and make her animals so popular with exhibitors and viewers alike.” About herself Martha wrote, “My life is one of physical work, an effort to prove the words spoken by more gifted women….The world demands proof of womans capacities, without it words are useless.” One historian wrote, “Martha had come to see her work as the best way for her to demonstrate the abilities of women and thus to support the cause of feminism.” Another historian wrote, “What distinguished Martha from other taxidermists of the day was that Martha Maxwell always attempted to place stuffed animals in natural poses and amongst natural surroundings. Naturalist, taxidermist, and markswoman, Martha Maxwell is worthy of historical scrutiny. Maxwell is the woman who made a collection of the animals of Colorado, procuring herself, either by shooting, poisoning, trapping, buying, or soliciting from her acquaintances, specimens of almost every kind of living creature found in that region, skinning, stuffing, or in other ways preserving them.” Frustrated by visitor incredulity that a woman could have conceivably done all this, Maxwell put up a sign that read, “Woman’s Work.” From May 10 to November 10, 1876, the Centennial Exposition ran and attracted an estimated 9.8 million visitors.ĭartt reassuringly wrote, “Mrs. Fascinated by unusual animals and “living curiosities,” most Americans would not have been able to see these creatures of the West unless they were displayed. Martha Maxwell had been asked to represent Colorado Territory at the Centennial by displaying her collection of wildlife specimens presented in natural habitat groupings. These were some of the questions with which visitors to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bombarded Mary Dartt while she relieved her half-sister Martha Maxwell from the same interpretive duties.
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Did she pisen ’em?” “Did she kill them all?” “How could a woman do it?” “What sort of a woman is she?” “How did she stuff ’em?” “I don’t believe them critters was shot I’ve looked ’em all over and I can’t see any holes. Traditional Cowboy Arts Exhibition & Sale.Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale.