Doris Holmes Blake at Desk

ID: SIA2010-1589

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1970

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7310, Box 36, Folder: 7

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Summary

Doris Holmes Blake (1892-1978), an entomologist who specialized in the study of Chrysomelidae, is seated at her desk at the Smithsonian. There are drawings of beetles on her desk. Mrs. Blake was a coleopterist who worked in the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Entomology from 1928 until 1933 and where she continued as an unpaid research associate until her death.

Subject

  • Blake, Doris Holmes
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Entomology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7310, Box 36, Folder: 7

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1970

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Beetles
  • Insects
  • Entomology
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Entomologists
  • Scientific illustration
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-1589

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 4.95w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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