Trotter, William Henry

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters, photographs, a types radio address, newspaper clippings, and Trotter’s journals. The eight journals in this collection describe Trotter’s journeys in and around the Pennsylvania area, detailing the geographic, avian, and fauna life of the areas he visited. They span 1898 through 1929, with gaps. Most of Trotter’s collection resides in the Ornithology Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, where he was made a member in 1917....