{"id":3992,"date":"2025-07-01T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/?page_id=3992"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:17:43","slug":"charles-bertram-bert-nichols-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/exhibitions\/current-exhibitions\/eggscentricity-2\/charles-bertram-bert-nichols-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bertram “Bert” Nichols (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Bertram \u201cBert\u201d Nichols<\/strong> was born 1884 in Raceville, NY to Oscar and Mary Ann Nichols.<\/p>\n

At age 17 in 1901, he was an usher at the Pember Opera House. In 1905 at the age of 21, Bert placed an advertisement in The Oologist looking to sell his entire collection of eggs, some 300 species. (See ad) Two months later, he writes a correspondence to the Oologist stating that his collection was completely sold.<\/p>\n

However, in 1909 he places an ad with the same publication looking for a second-hand egg cabinet. Why? Was he looking for Mr. Pember? Our records have about 73 sets of eggs that were in his collection. Were these eggs what he didn\u2019t sell and then donated to the museum and when was that? Handwritten notes from a later director state that a \u201ctall, multi-drawer, 2-door wood cabinet was used to store eggs in the Nichols attic.\u201d Could this cabinet be the same one located in the museum\u2019s attic today?<\/p>\n

The Federal Censuses show us that Bert was a coal dealer in 1910, auto repair in 1915, mechanic in 1920, radio engineer in 1925 and electrician in 1930. At this time, he was curator for the Pember Museum and it\u2019s his inventory which is our earliest one. From 1948-1957 he was the superintendent for the Pember.
\nBert died in 1963 in Granville, NY.<\/p>\n

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\"Exhibit <\/a>
Exhibit 2 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sooty <\/a>
Sooty Albatross egg collected on February 8, 1888 on Desolation Island in the South Pacific <\/div> <\/div>
\"Egg <\/a>
Egg data card <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Backside <\/a>
Backside of the egg card <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bert's <\/a>
Bert’s Obit, image 1 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bert's <\/a>
Bert’s Obit, image 2 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"1905 <\/a>
1905 Young Oologist, v22-23 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"1905 <\/a>
1905 The Oologist, pg130 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"1909 <\/a>
1909 May 15 The Oologist, v26 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cabinet <\/a>
Cabinet in the museum’s attic. Perhaps Nichols per old director’s notes. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cabinet <\/a>
Cabinet in the museum’s attic. Perhaps Nichols per old director’s notes. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Bertram \u201cBert\u201d Nichols was born 1884 in Raceville, NY to Oscar and Mary Ann Nichols. At age 17 in 1901, he was an usher at the Pember Opera House. In 1905 at the age of 21, Bert placed an …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3858,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaqQSS-12o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3992\/revisions\/4064"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}