Alexander Wetmore in Cockpit of an Airplane
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PrintAlexander Wetmore, on the right, sits in a cockpit of an airplane somewhere over the Pearl Islands. Wetmore, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, went to Panama to collect birds, 1946-1953, for his four volume work, The Birds of Panama.
Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, October 30, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1946
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Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and white Size: 8w x 10h Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print