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Marble eyes and satin bows, furry paws on velvet pillows . . . explore the whimsical world of Victorian pet taxidermy through the eyes of collector J.D. Powe, who will discuss his recently published book, Best Friends Forever: The Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs on Earth. Artistically captured by photographer Zach Ishmael, Best Friends features over 100 once-beloved companions, some of which date to the mid-1800s. Drawn from several private collections, these canines, immortalized through taxidermy, are now symbols of love, grief, and the complex relationship humans enjoy with the most familiar denizens of the animal kingdom.

In this exclusive Morbid Anatomy event, J.D. Powe will share photos from the book, as we as examples from his own astounding collection of historically important taxidermy.

Technology entrepreneur JD Powe has retained a fascination with natural history over his 25 year career in business. A passionate collector of rare and antique taxidermy, Powe has assembled one of the world's elite private collections of unique and historically important specimens. The extensive collection includes examples from a wide range of taxidermy genres, including Victorian anthropomorphic tableaus in the style of Walter Potter, zoomorphic functional objects, and hundreds of extinct and bizarre specimens from passenger pigeons and Carolina parakeets to aardvarks, wombats and binturongs. Powe has loaned specimens to support educational programming and public exhibits at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, and currently, to the Curious Creatures exhibit at the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. His first taxidermy-themed book is Best Friends Forever: The World's Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs.