Shark Laying on Barrels
ID: SIA2013-08813
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Animal, candid
Date: March 3, 1935
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7187, Box 8, Folder 18
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- Shark captured by ichthyologist Isaac Ginsburg while on scientific expedition in Panama in 1935. The shark was found in the Pearl Islands and has stripes on its side.
- The caption on the back of the image reads: "Shark, Pearl Islands, Panama, Mar. 3, 1935"
Subject
- Ginsburg, Isaac 1886-
- United States Bureau of Fisheries
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- See Neg. #s SIA2013-08814 and SIA2013-08815 for additional photos.
- This photograph comes from the Isaac Ginsburg Collection, particularly of images from his 1935 trip to Panama. Ginsburg, after graduation from Cornell University, spent a short time as an aide in the Division of Fishes, United States National Museum, in 1917. In 1922, he received an appointment with the Bureau of Fisheries as a systematic ichthyologist and worked there until his retirement in 1956. He specialized in marine fishes of the Gulf of Mexico.
- The geographic map's latitude and longitude are estimate of the location of where this image was taken. There is no known exact latitude and longitude for this image.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7187, Box 8, Folder 18
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
March 3, 1935
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Animals
- Fishes
- Sharks
- Pearl Islands
- Ichthyology
- Islands
Place
- Panama
- Pearl Islands
- Caribbean Sea
Form/Genre
- Animal, candid
- Photographic print
ID Number
SIA2013-08813
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 4.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Medium: Photographic print