Minnesota Museums Month
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…
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Itasca State Park Week: Back to Beavers
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…
Itasca State Park Week: Heinzelman’s
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…
Remembering Itasca State Park
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…
Minnesota Winter Scenes
Minnesota winter scenes from Koma Lake in the Superior National Forest, 1938: – Snow on Koma Lake, Cook County, March 1938 – Beaver cutting on Koma Lake, Cook County, March 1938…