Bea Wetmore at a Cook Stove

ID: SIA211-2147 or Wetmore #5552

Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: March 15, 1954

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 180, Folder: Panama, 1954

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Summary

Outside a cabin, Bea Wetmore, wife of Alexander Wetmore, stirs food cooking on a cook stove in camp at Santa Clara, Chiriqui, Panama. Several pots are on the stove and clothes are hung on a line behind Bea. A bottle of distilled water sits on a shelf and another pan hangs on the wall of the cabin.

Subject

Wetmore, Annie Beatrice Thielen

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The image was taken by sixth Smithsonian Secretary (1944-1952) and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Panama.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 180, Folder: Panama, 1954

Contact information

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

Date

March 15, 1954

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Houses
  • Equipment
  • Architecture
  • School field trips
  • Cookery
  • Stoves
  • Camps
  • Field trips
  • Cookery--Equipment and supplies
  • Buildings--Panama

Place

  • Santa Clara
  • Chiriqui
  • Panama
  • Chiriquí (Panama : Province)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

SIA211-2147 or Wetmore #5552

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.75w x 4.75h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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