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)…
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…
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…
But he’s not exactly hoppin’ down the bunny trail… – Cottontail rabbit in group at Colorado Museum, Denver, mounted by Jenness Richardson, undated. These Cottontail rabbits are mounted specimens, prepared for a habitat group exhibit at the Colorado Museum of…
Back in November I shared the only then known image of turkeys from the ~6,900 glass plate and film negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. A good portion of the negatives were produced by Thomas Sadler Roberts…