Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 : Photographs of Uruguay

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Abstract

The photographs document Waldo Schmitt's work in Uruguay during the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. There are no descriptions or numbers on the reverse side of images. Subject matter includes portraits of colleagues and local inhabitants (possibly family members); vistas of countryside and towns visited; shorelines of rivers; detail images of ground vegetation; ports; rocky and sandy shorelines.

Date Range

1925-1927

Start Date

1925

End Date

1927

Access Information

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Topic

Zoology

Place

  • South America
  • Uruguay

Form/Genre

  • Fieldbook record
  • Field notes
  • Black-and-white photographs

Accession #

SIA RU007231

Collection name

Waldo L. Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978

Physical Description

75 black-and-white photographs

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 83