Page from Foshag's Notebook with Description of Jade Samples

ID: SIA2011-0944

Creator: Foshag, William F

Form/Genre: Object

Date: c. 1949

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 91-144, Box 1, Folder: Field Notebooks (Re: Jade)

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Summary

A notebook page highlighting specimens 3068, 3072, 3077 of the jade collected in Guatemala by William F. Foshag, curator in the Geology Department at the National Museum of Natural History. Foshag conducted an extensive survey of jade in Central America.

Subject

  • Foshag, William F
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Geology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

For more examples of William F. Foshag's notebooks see SIA2011-0943, SIA2011-0945, SIA2011-0946.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 91-144, Box 1, Folder: Field Notebooks (Re: Jade)

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1949

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Natural History - Guatemala
  • Specimens
  • Jade
  • Minerals
  • Field Notes
  • Guatemala

Place

Guatemala

Form/Genre

  • Object
  • Document

ID Number

SIA2011-0944

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Color ; Size: 13w x 8.25h ; Type of Image: Object ; Medium: Document

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