July 26, 1959: “Taxes are the death of taxidermy,” lamented Elmer E. Rowland (not pictured) in an article about a bear market for taxidermists, who were closing down their shops. The demand for stuffed tigers or mounted marlins wasn’t the same as it was in the days of the Vanderbilts or Astors, they said. Fred Sauter, Mr. Rowland’s associate in the photo, said: “Some of the specimens in the old days would take up a whole wall in somebody’s mansion. Now who has a wall that big?”