Henry B. Collins, Jr. on U.S.S. Boxer

Summary

Henry Collins, on a field trip, probably to Florida, is aboard the United States Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Boxer. Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., (1899-1987), an archaeologist, specialized in Eskimo prehistory. He worked at the Division of Ethnology of the United States National Museum from 1923 to 1938, Bureau of American Ethnology from 1939 to 1965, and the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History from 1966 to 1987.

Subject

• Collins, Henry Bascom 1899-
• United States National Museum
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of Henry B. Collins, Jr., Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, March 5, 1985, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9528, Box 1, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Oral History Interviews

Contact information

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

Date

1927

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Archaeology
• Scientific expeditions
• Boats and boating
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Ethnology
• Employees
• Field Work
• Ethnologists
• U.S.S. Boxer (Ship)
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Archaeologists
• United States Coast Guard
• Ships

Place

Florida

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2009-2052 and 4893

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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