Incredible. All photos from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.
This is Wilson Bentley, the first known photographer of snowflakes.
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He had loved snow since his childhood on a Vermont farm.
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He perfected a process of catching snowflakes on black fabric, then photographing them with a microscope and bellows camera.
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He took THOUSANDS of detailed pictures of snowflakes in his lifetime!
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