Frank Commons

Tuesday Tweet: University Bird Class

Associate Curator and Director were not the only titles that Thomas Sadler Roberts held during his tenure at the University of Minnesota. Beginning in 1916, just one year after he started at the U, Roberts also added the title of…


Tuesday Tweet: Bath time!

(from the glass plate negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History collection) – Birdbath at Frank Commons residence, 1923 – Birdbath on wall at W.C. Edgar’s place, 1923 – Birdbath in front yard at W.C. Edgar’s place, 1923 -…