Pets, Stowaways, Souvenirs, and Snakes: The Living Gifts New Yorkers Donated to the Bronx Zoo in the Early 20th Century

By Katherine McLeod

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to be able to include this digital mapping project, which uses GiS technology to enhance our understanding of history. While this is the first such project featured on the blog, we have no doubt that it will not be the last.

Katherine McLeod is a PhD candidate at New York University. Her dissertation situates the New York Zoological Society within a global network of empire and economics in order to investigate the trans-imperial dimensions of animal collection, ecology, and zoological display in the early 20th century.