United States National Museum Entomological Workers, 1905

Summary

Entomology staff of the Division of Insects, United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building in the collection area. Staff (left to right): Unidentified young man, Mrs. Virginia (Jennie) Locke, Andrew Nelson Caudell, James Crawford, Daniel Coquillett, Otto Heidemann, William H. Ashmead, Harrison Gray Dyer, Eugene A. Schwarz, and at the end on the right is possibly Robert Asa Cushman or Raymond Corbett Shannan. A bank of storage cabinets containing trays are along the back wall. Some large specimens including a head showing teeth of an animal are lying on a shelf on the left. A tall ladder leans against storage units on the right.

Subject

• Dyar, Harrison G (Harrison Gray) 1866-1929
• Cushman, Robert Asa
• Schwarz, Eugene Amandus 1844-1928
• Caudell, Andrew Nelson
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects
• United States National Museum
• Arts and Industries Building
• United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology
• National Collections

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Neg. # 92-1600 which is a slightly different view.

Contained within

Contained Within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7323, Box 16, Folder: 54

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1905

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

• Women
• Museum storage facilities
• Entomology
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Specimens
• Employees
• Entomologists
• Ladders
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group

ID Number

SIA2011-0103 and Neg. # 92-1599

Physical description

Color: Sepia; Size: 5w x 4h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print

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