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Articles tagged Photography: 10

  • Chris Grinter moves on

    Posted 10/07/2014 by Frank Krell | Comments
    It wasn't long ago that we won a grant from the National Science Foundation to digitize, meaning to database and photograph, specimens of soil-living insect species of our collection. DMNS became a part of SCAN, the Southwestern Collections of Arthropods Network, and we could hire a curatorial assis…
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  • Cool Stuff In Image Archives- Bratley Collection

    Posted 08/24/2012 by Library | Comments
    Jesse H. Bratley image Jesse H. Bratley was born in Brown Town, Wisconsin in 1867. In 1893 he joined the Government Service to be a teacher. Over the next ten years he taught or presided at schools on several Indian Reservations, In the 1890s, Bratley introduced sub-irrigation methods, bl…
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives- Fieldwork

    Posted 08/24/2012 by Library | Comments
    Golden Eagle Fieldwork Museum staff Bailey, Niedrach, and Landberg took several field trips to nearby cliffs in Douglas and Weld County to study the golden eagle circa 1935. They suspended bird blinds to photograph the nest with young chicks.  Imagine using the bumber of this 1938 Ch…
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives-China and Japan 1870-1910 Part II

    Posted 06/21/2012 by Library | Comments
    Expedition to China & Japan 1870-1911, Part II A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate negatives was shipped from an unknown source to the Museum in 1985.  The crate indicated a date of 1907 but paper found inside one of the crates dates to 1870.  The images …
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives-China and Japan 1870-1910

    Posted 05/24/2012 by Library | Comments
    Expedition to China & Japan 1870-1911 A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate negatives was shipped from an unknown source to the Museum in 1985.  The crate indicated a date of 1907, but paper found inside the crate was dated 1870. The images are of a trip taken to…
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  • Cool Stuff in the Image Archive--Expedition Field Truck

    Posted 05/02/2012 by Library | Comments
    Museum Field Truck Ready to Go  - 1927 Museum employee Frank Figgens sits in the driver's seat of a DMNS field truck outside of the Museum before heading out on an expedition sometime around 1927. Field trips took days and sometimes weeks, and stocking up on supplies was essential. Not…
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives- Surreal Nature

    Posted 04/04/2012 by Library | Comments
    Can you Find the Water Ouzel Nest? c. 1918-1935 While the Water Ouzel's nest (also known as American Dippers) is barely seen on the cliff to the right, photographer Robert B. Rockwell unintentionally caught a stunningly beautiful Colorado River scene as well.  Rockwell was an early Na…
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives-Two Guys and a Gun

    Posted 03/21/2012 by Library | Comments
    Figgins and Reinheimer in the Field - c. 1913-1933 Museum Director Jesse Dade Figgins and Preparator Philip Reinheimer pose for a photo in a log cabin while out on a specimen-collecting trip in the field likely sometime in the 1920s. While expeditions today rely on computers and cameras, on…
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  • Cool Stuff In Image Archives-Cottontail with Horns

    Posted 03/02/2012 by Library | Comments
    This rabbit, while not part of the collection, was brought to the Museum in the early 1900's for inspection.  According to Head of Zoology and Curator John Demboski, this is caused by a virus related to the family of human Papilloma viruses (HPVs) and thought to be the basis for the Jacka…
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  • Cool Stuff in Image Archives - Screech Owl in Tree

    Posted 02/15/2012 by Library | Comments
    Taken in photographer Robert Rockwell's backyard, you can almost see the look of surprise on the owl's face. Look close enough in the reflection in his eye and you can see the reflection of Rockwell's camera equipment. Volunteer Boyd Fletcher found this image in the Glass Plate Negative col…
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