W. Duane Hope with Microscope

ID: SIA2013-03977

Creator: Sandved, Kjell Bloch 1922-

Form/Genre: Person, candid

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder A -Kier

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Summary

In his office in the northwest corner of the Natural History Building, W. Duane Hope of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, sits at a high-powered microscope which he uses to examine slides of marine nematode worms. On the table are slides in a slide holder tray, photos of worm body parts, a slide holder box, petri dish, bottles and tools. His research focused on the systematics, comparative and functional ultrastructure, and phylogenetics of marine nematode worms. Through the window can be seen a portion of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, and a portion of the Herbert C. Hoover Building,headquarters for the United States Department of Commerce.

Subject

  • Hope, W. Duane 1935-
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • United States. Dept. of Commerce
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • Herbert C. Hoover Building (Washington, D.C.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
  • For additional photos of W. Duane Hope, see Negatives SIA2013-03973 through SIA2013-03980.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder A -Kier

Contact information

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

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Equipment
  • Optical instruments
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Zoology
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Nematodes
  • Specimens
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Microscope slides
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy--Equipment and supplies
  • Research--Equipment and supplies
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Zoologists
  • Museum curators

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Person, candid
  • Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03977

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 1w x 1 3.7h ; Type of Image: Person, candid ; Medium: Slide

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