A few months ago, I checked out Walter J. Breckenridge’s autobiography My Life in Natural History, which was published by the Bell Museum in 2009. In the book, the taxidermist and curator (from 1926-1946) and eventual director (from 1946-1970) of…
In an August blog post here on Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History we shared the images of a group of young Chickadees perched on top of a stump. These obviously posed images were taken at Brook Lodge near Lake City, Minnesota…
Over the course of the past eight months I have received a tour of the natural landscape of Minnesota as it appeared over one hundred years ago. The glass plate negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records and…
After a brief and hastily conducted “retrospective” survey in the fall of 1872, followed by a full year foray filled with salt determinations and peat assessments in 1873, Newton Horace Winchell, the director of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History…
Whatcha looking at, Weasel? – Short-tailed Weasel, Anoka County, July 15, 1935…
Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic… Grape-nuts – it contains neither grapes nor nuts. Discuss. – Sandhill Crane, adult, with Robert Scheick, warden, October 25, 1940…
In Hollywood, photographers who take pictures of celebrities going about their day to day routines are known as “paparazzi.” Might the same term be applied to this group of young men seen photographing this fawn in Itasca State Park on…