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Snowflakes: Amazing pictures taken in the late 1800s
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865-1931) was America's First Cloud Physicist and was the first to take photographs of snowflakes through a microscope in 1885. This gallery is a few of the thousands of photomicrographs of individual ice crystals he took during his life.
No two are alike, beautiful snowflakes
(Photo: Bentley Collection/Schwerdtfeger Library)
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