In the 1920s, Thomas Sadler Roberts began to develop a series of what he called Òportable groupsÓ based on a travelling exhibition series of the Field Museum in Chicago. By 1927, 44 portable groups, displaying a variety of animals with photographic backgrounds of their natural environment in a portable glass case were available to local school...
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Contributor:
Roberts, Thomas Sadler, 1858-1946 (Photographer)
Created:
1926
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Frank W. Commons (1859-1930) operated a bird banding station along with this wife Marie at their home, Tanager Hill, on Lake Minnetonka. William Kilgore and John Nordquist are pictured. William Kilgore, Jr. (1879-1953) was a personal friend of Thomas Sadler Roberts and became a curator at the Zoological Museum (Bell Museum of Natural History) in...
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Contributor:
Roberts, Thomas Sadler, 1858-1946 (Photographer)
Created:
1926-05-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
