Last week, I shared a post about a little quirk we’ve encountered with the collection of negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. A set of negatives, contained within the last six drawers of the 56 drawers that…
(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 -…
Last Friday, I walked across campus from Andersen Library to the Bell Museum of Natural History in order to research the animal habitat groups that are featured in the museum’s stunning dioramas. As I stood in front of a display…
This week’s Friday Flora is not from the collection of the Department of Botany as regularly featured, but comes from the documentary nature photography of Thomas Sadler Roberts. Though birds are Roberts’s most common subject, several examples of flora and…