We’re not sharing any images on the UThink Exploring blog for the Friday Flora this week, and it’s for a good reason. We are excited to report that the 2, 273 mounted print photographs of botanical specimens and regional landscapes…
Join us on Friday, May 2, at 12:00p.m., when the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History project staff present the program for the University Libraries’ “First Fridays” series at Andersen Library. Arcana of Nature: Natural Desire at the University of Minnesota…
– Barn swallows on a fence, Heron Lake, June 12, 1899 (From the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)…
The Golden Gate Parks Conservancy has written a quiz, “What Bird Personality Fits Your Bill?” to help you determine what kind of bird you would be based on “distinct avian phenotypes.” I got Wrentit. What’s your bird personality?…
When we started our Itasca themed week, we shared the story of how beavers were introduced to Minnesota’s first state park. It is only fitting then that we close our week-long celebration of the establishment of Itasca State Park with…
Though a dozen or so homesteads were established near Lake Itasca in the 1880s, to include the first by Peter Turnbull in 1883, only William McMullen, who first came to Itasca in 1889, was residing in the area when Itasca…
In 1907, the state legislature passed a bill that designated Itasca State Park as a State Forest and assigned Park management to the state Forestry Board. The legislature also granted the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota permission…
Welcome to day three of Itasca State Park Week, the week that Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History celebrates the 123rd anniversary of Minnesota’s first state park by sharing early images of the park found within the natural history collections at the…
On April 20, 1891, the Minnesota state legislature adopted an act to establish the first public park for the state of Minnesota on land that surrounded the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca. “An act to establish and…
While I don’t claim to have a photographic memory, my work over the past several months on the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History project has fine-tuned my ability to remember images. Having viewed over 12,000 images from negatives, lantern slides, and…