On April 20, 1891, the Minnesota state legislature adopted an act to establish the first public park for the state of Minnesota on land that surrounded the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca. “An act to establish and…
We’ve all heard of “sittin’ on the dock of the bay.” We give you… “Sittin’ on a rock far away.” – Rocks at Granite Falls, Minnesota, undated. (From the Ned L. Huff lantern slide collection in the Department of Botany…
You may have read the title of this blog post and wondered, “What? I thought this was the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History blog?” It still is. However, the title of this post addresses an unanticipated outcome of our project. By…
Occasionally after I arrive home from work, I turn on WCCO to watch Wheel of Fortune. It’s nice to unwind after a long day and likely delayed commute via public transit to the sounds of the rat-i-tat-tat of a spinning…
When we began scanning the Ned L. Huff Lantern Slide Collection a few months ago, we had very little knowledge of just who Ned Huff was other than that he was a botany professor at the University. Ned was…
This week marked the start of the spring semester at the University of Minnesota, yet as the temperature remained below zero in the Twin Cities for most of the week, it didn’t feel very spring-like on campus. Thanks to former…
The New Year was especially exciting at the University Archives, as during the second week of 2014 the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History project surpassed 100,000 individual scans. To date, over 110,000 archival materials – photographs, negatives, pages from field notebooks,…