History: Barney Mullen, Navy watchman and expert sharpshooter nicknamed the "Official Sparrow Executioner" by the media. Mullen was tasked with the removal of a plague of English Sparrows during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, ca. 1901-09 [762 x 1106].

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