Watson M. Perrygo and Alexander Wetmore
ID: SIA2010-0502 or Wetmore 4944
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: March 14, 1952
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews; Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 178, Album: Panama 1952
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Watson M. Perrygo, taxidermist, exhibits preparator and zoological exhibits worker in the Department of Zoology, United States National Museum, and Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, stand beside a truck carrying the identification of the United States Air Force (U.S.A.F. A-6331). They are on Taboga Island, Panama. Perrygo and Wetmore went on many trips to collect bird specimens.
Subject
- Perrygo, Watson M. 1906-1984
- Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Zoology
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, November 13, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews; Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 178, Album: Panama 1952
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
March 14, 1952
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Trucks
- Scientific expeditions
- Secretariats
- Transportation
- Secretaries
- Birds
- Employees
- Animals
- Taxidermists
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Collectors and collecting
- School field trips
- Ornithologists
- Field trips
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Place
- Panama
- Taboga Island
- Taboga Island (Panama)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
ID Number
SIA2010-0502 or Wetmore 4944
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: color; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print