Tuesday Tweet: Birds on a barb
– Four young Bluebirds, Fillmore County, June 1903 (from the Bell Museum collection of glass plate negatives)…
August 2013
Exploring Minnesota – electronically
Last summer I made a resolution to explore Minnesota by visiting destinations in my home state that I have not yet experienced. I started with an excursion to Ely and the Sudan mine last August, and just this past…
Friday Flora: Rock vegetation
This University of Minnesota botanist is intensely dedicated to his study of Minnesota flora… – Rock vegetation, lichens, and mosses on sand bluff, Minnehaha, July, 1902 (From the photograph collection of the Department of Botany)…
Tuesday Tweet: A Bittern takes a bite
Here are a few “in-house” images of a “Bittern with frog,” circa, 1902. In addition to capturing birds in the field, Thomas Sadler Roberts pursued his early ornithological avocation by staging backgrounds – and props – in order to better…
Friday Flora: Profile of C.J. Hibbard
When the Exploring project began back in mid-April, the inaugural collection of materials scanned were 2,200 botanical photographs from the collection of the Department of Botany (precursor to the Department of Plant Sciences). The final scan of this collection was…