A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley ...

The latest StoryWalk along the trail features “Snowflake Bentley,” the Caldecott Medal-winning picture book by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian.

In 1885, Wilson Bentley, a farmer in Vermont, became the first known person to photograph a snowflake. He would document 5,000 of them in his lifetime. In a new series for the first day of each month, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — While most of us grew up cutting out snowflakes from construction paper, with six points, the truth is, many snowflakes don’t look like the star-shaped dendrites we are used to seeing.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A microphotograph of a "Dendrite Star ...

We all remember the saying "no two snowflakes are alike" but who made us all believe this and why? Wilson A. Bentley was a pioneer in the field of photomicrography, the science of photographing very ...

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