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 ...

Importantly, snowflakes grow from gaseous water vapour and not liquid water. Water molecules in the air diffuse onto the ice crystal and attach directly to it in a process known as deposition. Since ...

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, ...

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 ...