Watson M. Perrygo

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Summary

Watson M. Perrygo (1906-1984), a field collector, taxidermist, and exhibits specialist for the United States National Museum (USNM), sits on a box holding in his hands dead birds which are part of his day's bag. He is on a field trip to El Brazo, Jaque, Darien, Panama. Perrygo accompanied Alexander Wetmore, sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Panama to collect birds, 1946-1953, for Wetmore's four volume work, The Birds of Panama.

Subject

  • Perrygo, Watson M. 1906-1984
  • Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, October 30, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1, Watson M. Perrygo 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

1946

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Taxidermy
  • Animals
  • Taxidermists
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Specimens
  • Birds
  • Employees
  • Expeditions
  • Collection and preservation
  • School field trips
  • Ornithology
  • Field trips
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Birds--Collection and preservation

Place

  • Jaque (Darien, Panama)
  • Panama
  • Darien (Panama : Province)
  • El Brazo, Jaque (Darien, Panama)
  • Darien
  • El Brazo
  • Jaque

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

None

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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