Maria Bandeira on a Trail at Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil

Summary

Maria Bandeira, of the Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro, is on a trail below Macieras, Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil. Maria Bandeira accompanied Mary Agnes Chase for this part of her second trip to Brazil. Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, went on an expedition to Brazil in 1929 to collect botanical specimens. Mary Agnes Chase was a botanist specializing in the study of grasses.

Subject

• Bandeira, Maria
• Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Grasses

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Maria Bandeira accompanied Mary Agnes Chase for this part of her second trip to Brazil. Mary Agnes Chase. Later heard from P. Campos Porto that Bandeira entered a convent, the last mention of her. There is no information about how long she remained there.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album

Contact information

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

Date

1929

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil
• Botanical specimens
• Botany
• Collectors and collecting
• Field Work
• Plants
• Botanists

Place

• South America
• Brazil

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2009-4230 and Chase 1854

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 3w x 5h; Type of Image: Person, Candid; Medium: Photographic print

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