– 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…
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…
For several months now I have wanted to share some unique images from the Bell Museum of Natural history negative collection. The images document the preparation and construction of the iconic Bell Museum dioramas, or what museum director Thomas Sadler…
– Evening Grosbeak, in house [A mounted specimen of an Evening Grosbeak.] mount: to prepare (as a specimen) for examination or display (From the glass plate negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History collection)…