Portrait of Rolla Patteson Currie (1875-1960)

ID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27A_087]

Creator: Washington Biologists' Field Club

Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1930

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27A, Image No. SIA_000095_B27A_087

Summary

Seated outside of Winnemana Lodge, a cabin and clubhouse constructed on Plummers Island for use by the Washington Biologists' Field Club.

Currie, Rolla P. 1875-1960

See Archives No. SIA2015-008618
Worked for the Smithsonian Institution and was active with the Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1889. In 1901, he worked as an entomologist with the Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and specialized in odonates. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest, and became bishop of Washington; Member, Washington Biologists' Field Club, 1901-1930.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27A, Image No. SIA_000095_B27A_087

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Plummers Island (Md.)

Black-and-white photographs

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27A_087]

Gelatin silver prints; 5 x 4;