Louise Birt Baynes

Louise Birt Baynes with a chickadee friend, 1914.

Louise Birt O'Connell Baynes (1876 - February 25, 1958) was an American photographer and naturalist.

Baynes was born as Louise Birt O'Connell in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1876.[1][2] She married naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes on April 24, 1901, after a seven-year engagement.[3][4] By 1904, she was living in Meriden, New Hampshire, where she would live most of the rest of her life.[1] In Meriden, she aided her husband in his work and in the establishment of the Meriden Bird Club and sanctuary.[5] Baynes and her husband were both members of the Cornish Equal Suffrage League.[6]

Bayne's husband, Ernest, died in 1925.[3] Baynes died on February 25, 1958, in Philadelphia.[5] Her ashes were dispersed in Meriden in the same spot as her husband's ashes.[5]

Work

Baynes wrote and illustrated articles about animals and nature for magazines. She published "The Frolics of My Black Bear Cub," a story with accompanying photographs, in the St. Nicholas magazine in 1909.[7] Louise Baynes edited and provided photographs for many of Ernest Harold Baynes' books. Her photographs illustrated The Sprite, the Story of a Red Fox (1924),[8] and Wild Life in the Blue Mountain Forest (1931).[9] She was the editor of Three Young Crows and Other Bird Stories (1927)[10] and My Wild Animal Guests (1930).[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Louise Birt Baynes: Photographer & Naturalist". PhotoSeed. June 2015. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  2. ^ Hagebusch, Priscilla (January 2023). "'Ernest Harold Baynes' from the Book by Raymond Gorges" (PDF). Mill Town Messenger. 17 (1): 1.
  3. ^ a b "Death of Ernest Harold Baynes". Vermont Journal. 1925-01-30. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-08-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Kunitz, Stanley J.; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1951). "Ernest Harold Baynes". Junior Book of Authors (2nd ed.). The H.W. Wilson Company. p. 24 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ a b c "Ashes of Mrs. Baynes Dispersed in Meriden". Valley News. 1958-07-31. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-08-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Colby, Virginia (1986-12-12). "Women's Suffrage". Women's Suffrage. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-08-04 – via Newspapers.com. and "Suffrage". The Windsor Chronicle. 1986-12-12. p. 20. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
  7. ^ "The St. Nicholas League has grown". The Star-Independent. 1909-03-05. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-08-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "New Books in Brief Review". The Washington Herald. 1924-12-21. p. 40. Retrieved 2025-08-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Observations in Corbin Game Reserve by the Late Ernest Harold Baynes". Springfield Weekly Republican. 1931-12-03. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-08-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Birds Have Human Traits". Columbia Missourian. 1928-03-17. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-08-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Wild Animal Friends". Pasadena Star-News. 1931-03-07. p. 20. Retrieved 2025-08-05 – via Newspapers.com.
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