E. S. Mogridge

Summary

Elizabeth Sarah Mogridge was a British modeller in wax who became known for her natural history models for museums, particularly the British Museum in London and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, for which she created backgrounds replicating the habitat were the earliest exhibits in the United States to display birds in a simulated natural habitat; a Scientific American article praises her "very perfect reproduction of natural environment in every detail".