Description: A full-page engraving, published in the Harper's Weekly magazine dated November 8, 1873 and entitled as follows: "Deer Hunting on Long Island" - An Old Sport Revived - see history below Good condition but with the usual edge tears and creases reflective of the paper quality used at that time - see scan. Unrelated text to the reverse. Page size 11 x 16 inches This is an original antique print and not a reproduction . Great collectors items for the historian - see more of these in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing. Note: International mailing in a tube is expensive - $16. The quoted international rate assumes the page is lightly folded and mailed in a reinforced envelope Here firstWhite-tailed deer are native to Shelter Island, and lived here long before European people arrived in the early 17th century. Archaeological evidence shows that the Manhanset people, who were Shelter Island’s original human inhabitants, were not only skillful hunters, and ate a lot of venison, but also used deer hides for clothing and bones for tools.European settlers cleared large parts of Long Island for farming, the kind of human activity that increases the deer population, since deer thrive on the edges between forest and field. Deer numbers may have dipped on Long Island in the mid- and late-1700s, as indicated by worried correspondence between Henry Lloyd and John Lloyd of Lloyd’s Neck, Long Island in June of 1773.“I think we are lucky in preserving the deer,” Henry wrote, “which doubtless will increase if they remain unmolested. I’ll readily join my brethren in laying every restriction for their preservation.”
Price: 7.5 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
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