Alexander Wetmore in Darien, Panama

Summary

Alexander Wetmore, sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944-1952, in a village at the mouth of the Rio Imamado, in Darien, Panama, on March 30, 1947, is on a collecting trip with Watson M. Perrygo. Wetmore is standing in front of a thatched roof hut set on stilts. A ladder made from a tree trunk leads from the ground to the floor of the hut. People and household goods are visible inside the hut. Wetmore was conducting ornithological field work for his four volume work, "The Birds of Panama."

Subject

Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Wetmore's Neg. # 3261 is from a photo album documenting his Panama trip in 1947. The album is part of the Alexander Wetmore papers in Smithsonian Institution Archives. Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, November 13, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 176, Album: "Darien, 1947"; Record Unit 9516, Box 1, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews;

Contact information

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

Date

March 30, 1947

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Rio Imamado, Panama
• Secretariats
• Animals
• Secretaries
• Collectors and collecting
• Roofs
• Birds
• Field Work
• Expeditions
• Furnishings
• Ladders
• Darien, Panama
• Ornithology
• House furnishings

Place

• Panama
• Darien, Panama

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2008-3182; Wetmore Neg. # 3261

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 4.5w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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