Notebooks





Complementary Collections: A Survey Begins

On March 1, 1872 the legislature of the state of Minnesota approved a bill that ordered the commencement of a geological and natural history survey of the state, to be implemented and overseen by the Board of Regents of the…


In the field…

The past month was busy on the Exploring project, as student scanners in Digital Library Services completed over 25, 000 scans from June 10 – July 10th. This total is inclusive of the two types of scanning that have occurred…


Cumbersome Collecting

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…


Tuesday Tweet: Long-eared Owl

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…


A Wellcome customer…

– Wellcome Photographic Exposure Diary, F. K. Butters, 1911, from box 83 of the collection of the Department of Botany. “The most dainty, compact and useful pocketbook for photographers. Handsomely bound and beautifully illustrated.” So reads an advertisement for…