Perrygo Packing Mammal Skins
ID: SIA2008-6164
Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: March 10, 1948
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Record Unit 7006, Box: 176, Folder: Album Panama 1948
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Image, taken by Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, during an ornithological field trip to Panama, shows Watson M. Perrygo, National Museum of Natural History taxidermist and field collector, packing salted mammal skins in newspapers with the assistance of Eumenio, a young boy, in Parita, Herrera, Panama. Perrygo accompanied Alexander Wetmore on his trips to collect specimens and conduct ornithological field work.
Subject
- Perrygo, Watson M. 1906-1984
- Eumenio
- Taxidermist (USNM)
- National Collections
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Image contained in photo album prepared by Alexander Wetmore of his trip to Panama. Wetmore Neg. #3514.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Record Unit 7006, Box: 176, Folder: Album Panama 1948
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
March 10, 1948
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Preservation
- Animal skins
- Zoology
- Natural History
- Employees
- Taxidermy
- Taxidermists
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Collectors and collecting
- Specimens
- Collection and preservation
- Children
- School field trips
- Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation
- Field trips
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Natural history
Place
- Herrera (Panama : Province)
- Panama
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
ID Number
SIA2008-6164
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.5w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Group, Candid; Medium: Photographic print