Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintAlexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995) on a field trip during the 1969 American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas. "Bea" Wetmore worked as a secretary and translator for various entities of the Netherlands Government and the World Health Organization. After marrying Alexander Wetmore (sixth Smithsonian Secretary) in 1953, she joined him on most of his collecting expeditions to Panama and the Dutch West Indies and assisted him in his numerous publications in ornithology.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7440, American Ornithologists' Union Records, Image No. SIA2008-2264
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1969
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU007440 [SIA2008-2264]