Alexander Wetmore, Ratibor Hartmann and Cristobal Sánchez

Summary

Alexander Wetmore (left), Ratibor Hartmann (center) and Cristobal Sánchez (right) at Ana Luz, south of Chepo, Panama, are standing beside a jeep that has an Explorers Club flag hanging off its side. Wetmore and Hartmann hold birds that they collected in their hands. Hartmann and Sánchez assisted Alexander Wetmore, sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist, and Watson Perrygo, taxidermist at the United States National Museum, on their scientific field trips to Panama.

Subject

• Hartmann, Ratibor
• Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
• Sánchez, Cristobal

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The geographic location of this image is approximated by the information provided in Wetmore's original description of the image. It is not an exact longitude and latitude.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 177, Folder: Panama 1949

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

March 16, 1949

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Animals
• Jeep automobile
• Transportation
• Specimens
• Birds
• Flags
• School field trips
• Firearms
• Motor vehicles
• Rifles
• Field trips
• Ornithology
• Panamanians

Place

• Panama
• Chepo River Valley (Panama)
• Chepo

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-1173 or Wetmore Negative Number 3812

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white Size: 4.5w x 4.25h Type of Image: Group, candid Medium: Photographic print

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