This week's highlighted artifact is a ca. 1930 print of a lithograph originally painted by John James Audubon. The bird pictured is a Bachman Warbler named after Audubon's friend and fellow naturalist Revered John Bachman. Bachman, the pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, was one of the founders of the Southern Lutheran Seminary (the museum's tour office was the home of the professor of the Lutheran Seminary when it was in Lexington from 1832 to 1853). The ladies at St. John's held a showing of Audubon's paintings to raise money for the seminary in the 1830s as well.
See this artifact and more at the Lexington County Museum, located at 231 Fox Street in downtown Lexington. Visit www.lex-co.sc.gov/museum for more information.
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