View out the window / Eastman House garden ~ George Eastman House / International Museum of Photography and Film• click to embiggen
"Big game" ashtray and wastebasket ~ George Eastman House / International Museum of Photography and Film• click to embiggenThe guy who brought picture making to the masses, George Eastman, was also an avid big game hunter. His house is still decorated with many of his big game trophies. That said, the elephant's foot wastebasket is a bit much for me to handle.

It reminds me of the story about the Vanderbilt's Adirondack Great Camp, Sagamore, where the Vanderbilts, when advised that the camp needed more waste receptacles on the grounds of the great camp, instructed some of the help to go out and kill a bunch of bear cubs.

What's the connection between dead bear cubs and trash receptacles you might ask? The taxidermy-ed bear cubs were mounted as decorations on hollowed-out tree stumps that were spread around the grounds.

How cute is that? I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.....