Leonhard Stejneger in Field Clothes
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: circa 1920s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 22, Folder 13
Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist, is sitting in a chair dressed in field clothes.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Stejneger was the first full-time curator of the Department of Herpetology, United States National Museum. He came to the Smithsonian in 1881 as an ornithologist. Upon the resignation of Henry Yarrow, Stejneger was appointed to the position of Curator the Department of Reptiles and Batrachians, while remaining Head Curator of the Department of Biology.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 22, Folder 13
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
circa 1920s
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SIA2009-4252
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4w x 5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print