Descripción: National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. National Anthropological Archives.
«History remembers Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) as an eccentric character who helped save the Alaska fur seals from probable extinction, but he was also one of the first American artists to work in Alaska. His images of the Pribilof Island fur seals assisted the public in visualizing an animal and a way of life that most people had never seen. They sparked conservation sentiment that led to the recognition of the fur seal as a valuable renewable resource that needed protection.»