Doris Holmes Blake with Pet Iguana

ID: SIA2010-1590

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1978

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit7310, Box 36, Folder: 8

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Summary

Doris Holmes Blake (1892-1978), with her pet iguana on her shoulder sits at her desk. 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
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Entomology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit7310, Box 36, Folder: 8

Contact information

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

Date

1978

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Beetles
  • Insects
  • Entomology
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Entomologists
  • Iguanas
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-1590

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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