Here are a few “in-house” images of a “Bittern with frog,” circa, 1902. In addition to capturing birds in the field, Thomas Sadler Roberts pursued his early ornithological avocation by staging backgrounds – and props – in order to better…
I thought the name of this plant was implicit, but apparently not… Touch-Me-Nots, circa 1900 (Image taken by Thomas Sadler Roberts, part of the glass plate negative collection from the Bell Museum of Natural History records.)…
Here are a few images of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (no, I’m not being mean, that is really the name!) According to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Guide, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, “perch upright on trees, leaning on their tails like other…
In yesterday’s Tuesday Tweet, I shared an image from a glass plate negative of a Black-backed Woodpecker from June of 1902. The images were from a series of negatives Thomas Sadler Roberts produced on his collecting trip to Lake Itasca…
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…
– Arctic Woodpecker [Black-backed Woodpecker], Lake Itasca, June 1902. On a sunny June afternoon in 1902, Thomas Sadler Roberts captured this Black-backed Woodpecker peeking out of it’s nesting place in the hole of this tree near Lake Itasca in…
– Taking photograph of Chipping Sparrow nest in oak tree with reflex camera, Thomas Sadler Roberts in tree. Long Meadow Gun Club, June, 1900. (From the Bell Museum glass plate negative collection)…
To photograph a Least Flycatcher, you could stand on the ground and point your camera up towards the nest: – Least Flycatcher’s nest from distance, June 11, 1899, Heron Lake, Jackson County Then again, you could also set up an…
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…
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…