A Black-crowed Night-Heron guarding its nest and eggs while Finley and Bohlman capture a shot at Malheur lake in 1908. Malheur lake would later become a bird refuge in 1908 when President Roosevelt saw photography Finley and Bohlman did of that...
A dramatic presentation by Finley and Bohlman of a dead Western Grebe in front of its young, notice the red coloring at the neck of the Grebe. Finley and Bohlman were out the end the feather hunting that was destroying habitats of birds, especially...
A Filney and Bohlman hand painted glass slide of California gull's in Klamath Marsh, 1905. "It seems to me that the gull is more nearly at the head of class than any other bird, when it comes to intelligence... he lives s simple, easy life,...
A hand painted glass slide of an American White Pelican with its young at Malheur lake in 1908, photographed by Finley and Bohlman. Finley and Bohlman photographs would help Malheur become a bird refuge in 1908.
A moment of quiet reflection on the northern reaches of the Mississippi River, as Bureau of Biological Survey chief Ira Gabrielson (1889-1977) casts a line off a vessel of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge during a 1937...
A Western grebe on its nest in Klamath Marsh, 1905. Finley and Bohlman's hand painted glass slides of Klamath Marsh would help protect the area from plume hunters by influencing President Roosevelt to declare the area a bird refuge in 1908.
A young Great blue heron photograph taken by Finley and Bohlman at Malheur 1908. A white form of the Great Blue Heron exists known as the "great white heron," it is found in shallow marine waters along the coast of southern Florida, the...
A young spotted sandpiper hand painted glass slide taken by Finley and Bohlman at Klamath Marsh in 1905. These photographs would later help create a bird refuge to protect Klamath from plume hunters in 1908.
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, north of Corpus Christi, Texas, is one of the National Wildlife Refuge System’s premier units, in large part because of the role it has played in the recovery of the endangered whooping crane, a 5-foot-tall white...
Barter Island is home of the village of Kaktovik. It is located off the Northeast shore of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea. This slide is located in the Historic Slide file.