THE EXHIBITION

Introduction
Biography
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium

Photography

Camera

Minnesota: Hoodoo Point

Minnesota: Canoe

Vienna

Record of Negatives

Ethel and Sal

Pumpkins of 1889

Pumpkins of 1889, Notes

Self-portrait

LHB Photographing

Melons-Collection

Peonies

Jonathan Apples

Winter Melons

Rea Quince

Passion Flower

Sunflower

Botan Plums

Tulips

Old Fashioned Garden

Fig

Chrysanthemum

LHB with camera, 1948
Writings
Travel

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PHOTOGRAPHY

During the summer of 1886, while he was teaching at the Michigan Agricultural College, Bailey took part in a geological and botanical survey of northeastern Minnesota. During that trip, he made some of his first photographs-not of botanical specimens, but of Native American settlements.

Exploration in Northern Minnesota. Indian Wigwam on Sucker Point, Onamanni-sagiegan.

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wigwam in Minnesota, July, 1886
Albumen print photograph

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