Watson Perrygo, Cristobal Sánchez, Ratibor Hartmann at Ana Luz

Summary

Watson Perrygo (left), Cristobal Sánchez (inside jeep), and Ratibor Hartmann (right) at Ana Luz, south of Chepo, Panama, stand beside a jeep that has an Explorers Club flag hanging off its side. Sánchez is in the jeep. Perrygo and Hartmann stand outside of the jeep holding two of the birds that they collected. Hartmann and Sánchez assisted Perrygo, taxidermist at the United States National Museum, and Alexander Wetmore, sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist, on their scientific field trips to Panama.

Subject

• Hartmann, Ratibor
• Perrygo, Watson M. 1906-1984
• Sánchez, Cristobal

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The geographic location of this image is approximated by the information provided in Wetmore's original description of the image. It is not an exact longitude and latitude.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 177, Folder: Panama 1949

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

April 16, 1949

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Animals
• Jeep automobile
• Transportation
• Specimens
• Birds
• Firearms
• School field trips
• Flags
• Motor vehicles
• Rifles
• Field trips
• Ornithology
• Panamanians

Place

• Panama
• Chepo River Valley (Panama)
• Chepo

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-1172 or Wetmore Negative Number 3811

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.5w x 4.25h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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