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…
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…
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…
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…
On the cover page of each Annual Report of The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, a list of the “Officers of the Survey” is printed. The first year, the only name that appears is that of State Geologist…
Remember back in August when we shared a profile of C.J. Hibbard, photographer for the Department of Botany? Through the use of a ledger titled “Receipts and Disbursements of the Geological and Natural History Survey Funds from August 1, 1872…
Were you reading carefully? This Friday we’re not featuring Flora or Fungi. This Friday is all about Fuca – the Strait of Juan de Fuca to be exact. Why are we featuring a strait off of the Pacific Ocean in…
The Pioneer Press recently published an article about public safety in one of Minneapolis’s oldest city parks, “Frozen Minnehaha Falls are cool, but visitors should heed warnings.” Minnehaha Park’s Minnehaha Falls are certainly a sight in the winter. The falling…
Last week, I shared a post about a little quirk we’ve encountered with the collection of negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. A set of negatives, contained within the last six drawers of the 56 drawers that…
In Chapter 9 of his autobiography, My Life in Natural History, Walter J. Breckenridge shared his field experiences with Birds of Prey. In his role as taxidermist and exhibit preparator at the Museum of Natural History, Breckenridge was tasked…