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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Photography: April 13, 2010 (Part One)

Top: Downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Bottom: Etching at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Close-ups of work from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Etta Sandry, lunch break in Millenium Park.

Fran Toan, giving a tour of the mammal preservation wing, where she has an internship preparing birds, at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. A cabinet of finished birds, drying.

Left: Rows and aisles of floor to ceiling cabinets, filled with birds from across the world.
Right: Bird skeletons awaiting storage, study, or display.



Left: Fran Toan finishing a bird she's been working on.
Right: Ali and Fran, in the avian preservation wing of the Chicago Museum on Natural History.

Top: The dermisted beetle colony room. Dermisted beetles only eat rotten flesh, and the museum used the insect to clean the skeletons of animals they intended for display or study. Glass aquariums lined the small fluorescent room, crackling with the sound of thousands of beetles eating.  

Top: Fran identifying her bird.
Bottom: Ali giving Fran a photograph of her.
Top: Ali and Fran, holding Fran's sculpture.
Bottom: Huge Native American sculpture, Museum of Natural  History, Chicago.

Courtney Mackedanz, working on her flag.

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