Mary Anne Andrei is a three-time Heartland Emmy Award winner and senior producer for emerging media at NET Nebraska, the state’s PBS and NPR station. Her short film Return of the American Bison received a 2019 Heartland Emmy and her PBS Digital 360° video series Watershed won a 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association Regional Murrow Award and a 2020 Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Eric Sevareid Award. Her photos have appeared in the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, and New Republic.

"Nature’s Mirror is a fascinating account of the development of taxidermy in late nineteenth-century North America. . . . a well-researched, informative, and highly readable book that provides valuable insight into the evolution of America’s natural history museums."

• Introduction1 “A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists”: Ward’s and the Birth of the Habitat Group2 “Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals”: The Society of American Taxidermists3 “The Destruction Wrought by Man”: Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation4 Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums5 “The Duty to Conserve”: Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals6 “Brightest Africa”: Carl Akeley and the American Museum’s Race to Bring Africa to AmericaEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Mary Anne Andrei is a three-time Heartland Emmy Award winner and senior producer for emerging media at NET Nebraska, the state’s PBS and NPR station. Her short film Return of the American Bison received a 2019 Heartland Emmy and her PBS Digital 360° video series Watershed won a 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association Regional Murrow Award and a 2020 Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Eric Sevareid Award. Her photos have appeared in the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, and New Republic.

"Nature’s Mirror is a fascinating account of the development of taxidermy in late nineteenth-century North America. . . . a well-researched, informative, and highly readable book that provides valuable insight into the evolution of America’s natural history museums."

• Introduction1 “A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists”: Ward’s and the Birth of the Habitat Group2 “Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals”: The Society of American Taxidermists3 “The Destruction Wrought by Man”: Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation4 Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums5 “The Duty to Conserve”: Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals6 “Brightest Africa”: Carl Akeley and the American Museum’s Race to Bring Africa to AmericaEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Mary Anne Andrei is a three-time Heartland Emmy Award winner and senior producer for emerging media at NET Nebraska, the state’s PBS and NPR station. Her short film Return of the American Bison received a 2019 Heartland Emmy and her PBS Digital 360° video series Watershed won a 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association Regional Murrow Award and a 2020 Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Eric Sevareid Award. Her photos have appeared in the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, and New Republic.

"Nature’s Mirror is a fascinating account of the development of taxidermy in late nineteenth-century North America. . . . a well-researched, informative, and highly readable book that provides valuable insight into the evolution of America’s natural history museums."

• Introduction1 “A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists”: Ward’s and the Birth of the Habitat Group2 “Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals”: The Society of American Taxidermists3 “The Destruction Wrought by Man”: Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation4 Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums5 “The Duty to Conserve”: Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals6 “Brightest Africa”: Carl Akeley and the American Museum’s Race to Bring Africa to AmericaEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex