#782-#1118, A. S. Hitchcock: Asia, 1921, Georgia and Florida, Panama and Ecuador, 1923, includes photographs of Floyd A. McClure

Abstract

The photograph album contains images compiled by A. S. Hitchcock from collecting trips. Images are numbered consecutively and have captions detailing subject matter, common or scientific name, location, and sometimes date. Locations visited included: Ecuador; Panama (Barro Colorado); Caribbean (St. Thomas, Haiti); Florida (Lake Okeechobee, Caxambos, Brooksville); Georgia (Savannah); Macao [Macau] ; China (Hoi How, Shiu Chow, Ying Tak, vicinity of Canton Christian College, Shanghai, Yangtze Valley, Hakone Valley); Japan (Nikko); Philippines; and Guam. Subject matter included: vegetation (multiple examples of bamboo), bird preserves, botanical gardens, sailing vessels and ports, lime processing in Macao, colleagues, landscapes, city scenes of Shanghai, and agricultural fields.

Date Range

1921-1923

Start Date

1921

End Date

1923

Access Information

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Topic

• Botany
• Plants
• Grasses
• Botanists

Place

• Ecuador
• United States
• Japan
• West Indies
• Macau
• Florida
• Yangtze
• Panama
• China
• Guam
• Phillippines
• Georgia
• Canton

Form/Genre

• Fieldbook record
• Field notes
• Photograph albums

Accession #

SIA RU000229

Collection name

United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965

Physical Description

1 photograph album

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 19