Kamila Kudelska

February 21, 2020

Museum Minute: “When the Buffalo Came Back”

The Plains Indian Museum doesn’t only collect art from the past. Rebecca West, the curator of the museum, said their job is…

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Draper Natural History Museum
February 17, 2020

Museum Minute: How Natural History Museums Came Across Their Collections, Yesterday and Today

In the past, natural history museums sent staff and researchers on expeditions to collect specimens in the field. But when the Draper…

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February 6, 2020

Museum Minute: A Hidden Figure

Museum curators often receive public inquiries, and sometimes an outside person can be very helpful to gaining better insight on a painting…

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January 31, 2020

Museum Minute: The .50 Caliber Bolt Action

During World War I, while John Browning was working on a heavy machine gun that would use a .50 caliber cartridge, Cody…

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MM: 1887 Frontier Revolver, Tom Tobin. 2003.10.1 (detail)
November 21, 2019

Museum Minute: A Bounty Hunter

Tom Tobin was a mountain man and bounty hunter in the late 1800s in Southern Colorado. He is most known for killing…

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Left to right: Max Wilde, D.W. DeFoe, J. L. Wheeler, Ty Cobb, Tom Yawkey. Max Wilde was the guide, DeFoe and Wheeler were clients, Cobb was also a client but a baseball superstar and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Tom Yawkey was owner of the Boston Red Sox. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.69.609 (detail)
November 15, 2019

Museum Minute: The Cody Red Sox

Did you ever think that Cody had a connection with the Boston Red Sox? Well, it turns out there is a connection. …

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