Las Palmas, Argentina During Secretary Wetmore's Field Work
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ID: SIA2012-0848 or Wetmore # 1352
Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: July 19, 1920
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"
Photograph of three unidentified men and one boy sitting on a fence at a wayside boliche, combination store and drinking place, in Las Palmas within Chaco, Argentina. On the right of the photo is a horse with a saddle and to the left of the image is the boliche, a small, mud-brick and thatch roof building. This photograph was taken by Alexander Wetmore, noted ornithologist and sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944-1952, while conducting field work for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey throughout the islands of the Caribbean and various Latin American countries.
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Historic Images of the Smithsonian
There are a variety of pictures from Wetmore's field work in Latin America at this SIA location.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 19, 1920
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SIA2012-0848 or Wetmore # 1352
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print