The Guardian: Snowflake Bentley’s 19th-century images of snow crystals put online
The Guardian: Snowflake Bentley’s 19th-century images of snow crystals put online. “For most farming families in 19th-century rural Vermont, winter snowstorms were dreaded and endured. But for Wilson Bentley, snow was a source of intense fascination that led him, at the age of 19, to produce the world’s first photomicrographs of snow crystals, which he described as ‘tiny miracles of beauty’. A stunning album of 355 of the original prints by the man who came to be known as Snowflake Bentley was bought by London’s Natural History Museum in 1899, an