Dr. Peter Henry Rolfs at Serra da Gamma, Brazil

Summary

In Serra da Gamma, Minas Geraes, Brazil, Dr. Peter Henry Rolfs climbs up a jungle bamboo slope with his back to the camera between fazenda and Araponga. A horse stands nearby.

Subject

• Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
• Rolfs, P. H (Peter Henry) 1865-1944
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Grasses
• United States National Herbarium

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Dr. Peter Henry Rolfs was the founder and Director of the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria do Estado de Minas Geraes, 1920-1929.
• The image was taken by Mary Agnes Chase on a scientific expedition 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 grass specimens.

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
• Landscapes
• Animals
• Botanical specimens
• Botany
• Collectors and collecting
• Horses
• Explorations and Expeditions
• Plants
• Grasses
• Botanists

Place

• South America
• Brazil

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Landscape
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2009-4229 and Chase 1931

Physical description

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

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