Back in November I shared the only then known image of turkeys from the ~6,900 glass plate and film negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. A good portion of the negatives were produced by Thomas Sadler Roberts…
We’ve all heard of “sittin’ on the dock of the bay.” We give you… “Sittin’ on a rock far away.” – Rocks at Granite Falls, Minnesota, undated. (From the Ned L. Huff lantern slide collection in the Department of Botany…
Earlier this week we introduced you to Ernest M. Brown, a taxidermist in Warren, MN who served as a field guide to Thomas Sadler Roberts when Roberts visited Warren and nearby Thief Lake and Mud Lake in the summer of…
Yesterday’s Tuesday Tweet featured an image of an albino Grackle. That is not the only image within the Bell Museum records that documents color abnormalities in animals. In the 1940s, museum taxidermist Walter Breckenridge prepared a mounted display of three…
Last month, University Libraries’ Communications Director Mark Engebretson visited University Archives to interview Exploring project staff and capture the process of digitization. He produced a video about our project that is now featured on the Libraries’ continuum website. After months…
With over 6,900 black and white negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records, we know of at least one that is true in coloration: – Albino Grackle, circa 1940 To learn more about color abnormalities in birds, read…
Hunting and fishing were important to the daily lives of Minnesota’s early residents as a source of food and income. For the most part, pioneers could hunt and fish all they wanted as very little regulation existed that addressed “taking”…
It is not likely you will see this scene replicated if you visited Como Park Zoo and Conservatory today after we just received 8 to 10 inches of snow in the Twin Cities. You could still go inside the Conservatory…
For several months now I have wanted to share some unique images from the Bell Museum of Natural history negative collection. The images document the preparation and construction of the iconic Bell Museum dioramas, or what museum director Thomas Sadler…
Another collection is live on the UMedia Archive and is ready to be researched! Collection #0895, Minnesota Geological Survey Field Notebooks, contains over 500 field notebooks kept by geologists and other scientists that worked for the Department of Geology and…