John Hall Sage, the banker and ornithologist for whom the campus’s Queen Anne house was built in 1884. The portrait is reproduced from Bird-Lore.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in United States; published before 1931. Source plate visually verified: https://archive.org/details/audubonnati04nati/page/n325/mode/1up (Bird-Lore advisory councillors, fourth series). Bound item metadata says volumes 4–6 and start date 1899; 1903 is the Commons supplied publication year, not a verified exposure date. University of Connecticut holds Sage papers: https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/841. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: Unknown; no later than publication. Published: 1903 per Commons source description
Source: Unknown photographer
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Silent Grounds Collective, Elmcrest Hospital & the Colt Connection, SGC-EC-016, EC-005, “John Hall Sage, published 1903.” Source: Unknown photographer. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hall_Sage.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.