Charles Fuller Baker working at a desk

ID: SIA2010-1584

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Person, candid

Date: May 1927

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007323, Box 2, Folder: 4

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Summary

Image of Charles Fuller Baker (1872-1927) working at his desk in his office at the University of the Philippines. The caption reads, "The Dean in his office, May, 1927."

Subject

  • Baker, C. F (Charles Fuller) 1872-1927
  • University of the Philippines

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Charles Fuller Baker spent most of his career as a teacher of agronomy and agriculture, but he maintained a steady interest in entomology which he indulged at every opportunity. Trained at Michigan Agricultural College, he taught for several years in Colorado, Alabama, and Missouri before going to California where, in 1903, he obtained an M.S. degree at Stanford. After a brief stay at Pomona College, Baker did further teaching and field work in Cuba and Brazil, returned to Pomona for several more years and, in 1913, became a professor of agriculture at the University of the Philippines. In 1918, he became Dean of that university's College of Agriculture, a post he retained until his death in 1927. While Baker's entomological studies were avocational, he strived to make a significant addition to the United States National Museum, to which his collection passed at his death. This image can be found in a booklet created for his memorial in in 1927.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007323, Box 2, Folder: 4

Contact information

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

Date

May 1927

Restrictions & Rights

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Topic

  • Botany
  • Universities and colleges
  • Entomologists
  • Photographs
  • Botanists

Form/Genre

  • Person, candid
  • Photographic print

ID Number

SIA2010-1584

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 3w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Document

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