In yesterday’s Tuesday Tweet, I shared an image from a glass plate negative of a Black-backed Woodpecker from June of 1902. The images were from a series of negatives Thomas Sadler Roberts produced on his collecting trip to Lake Itasca…
– Arctic Woodpecker [Black-backed Woodpecker], Lake Itasca, June 1902. On a sunny June afternoon in 1902, Thomas Sadler Roberts captured this Black-backed Woodpecker peeking out of it’s nesting place in the hole of this tree near Lake Itasca in…
– Taking photograph of Chipping Sparrow nest in oak tree with reflex camera, Thomas Sadler Roberts in tree. Long Meadow Gun Club, June, 1900. (From the Bell Museum glass plate negative collection)…
I wonder if birds sometimes get bogged down in the “hump” of the work week as well? (re: the Yellow-headed Blackbird on the far right) – Yellow-headed blackbirds on reeds, Long Meadow Gun Club, June 6, 1900 (From the Bell…
To photograph a Least Flycatcher, you could stand on the ground and point your camera up towards the nest: – Least Flycatcher’s nest from distance, June 11, 1899, Heron Lake, Jackson County Then again, you could also set up an…
One hundred and thirteen years ago at around this time of the year, Thomas Sadler Roberts set out on yet another trip to observe the birds of the state of Minnesota. Roberts kept written records of his ornithological outings in…
At the end of June 1900, Thomas Sadler Roberts traveled to northwestern Minnesota to meet colleague E.L. Brown and photograph birds in and around Warren in Marshall County. To prepare for the trip, in which they would traverse the old…
In 1920, Warren Upham, contributor to the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey, published Minnesota Geographic Names, which included 15,000 names of locales and geological entities in the state of Minnesota. The current and third edition, titled Minnesota Place Names:…
From the Bell Museum glass plate negative collection: – Young Cuckoo, front view, on finger, June 16, 1898, Waconia, MN – Young Cuckoo, back view, on finger, June 16, 1898, Waconia, MN…
Last week I shared some of my findings from background research on the Bell Museum of Natural History. After finishing the first book consulted, the Annals of the Museum of Natural History, I moved on to book #2: a biography…