The month of May was a blur. The final metadata spreadsheets were submitted, lingering corrections were made, digitized collections started to appear on the UMedia Archive, fifty-five drawers that contained over 6,900 glass plate and film negatives were re-housed in…
Well, the time has come, June is here! This means that the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History grant project has come to an end. The final metadata has been sent to the University Libraries web developers, and the digitized materials from…
Would you care for a Puffing Adder? – Puffing adder in hand, Crow Wing County, August 1939 (From the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)…
Posts on Exploring have been short and sweet lately. That is because like this Black-billed Cuckoo, Exploring project staff are hanging in there. We are clamoring down and racing to the finish. Another collection was added to the UMedia Archives…
It is raining with lightning and thunder in Minneapolis today. Taking my cue from the weather, I’ll share another mysterious “M” numbered negative from the Bell Museum of Natural History records: – Stub of Pine tree splintered by lightning, Itasca…
May is Minnesota Museums Month! Have you visited a museum yet? Why not make a visit to the Bell Museum of Natural History? Marie Godfrey visited the museum in 1921 (when it was known as the Zoological Museum and housed…
– Common toad croaking, 1937, Minneapolis – Swamp tree frog croaking, 1937, New Brighton – Swamp tree frog croaking, 1937, New Brighton (From the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)…
– Roosevelt Ostrich in the National Museum, Washington D.C., undated. The Smithsonian Institution Archives has a record of a glass plate negative taken of the ostrich family collected by Theodore Roosevelt on his African expedition circa 1910. However, on…
On page xv in Annals of the Museum of Natural History 1872-1839, Thomas Sadler Roberts, museum director and author of the publication, printed the following entry in the Log of the Museum for the year 1915: May 6 – Thomas…
It is time once again to share images from the “M” numbered, or “Mystery,” negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. This installment is about three images from the negatives in drawers 51-56 of the 6,918 glass plate…