Riacho Pilaga, Argentina During Wetmore's Field Work

Summary

Don Pedro Upitz and his partner Don Juan are seen here examining a Cleveland tractor and disk plow that they have just purchased, on Hacienda Linda Vista in Formosa, Argentina. This photograph was taken by Alexander Wetmore, noted ornithologist and sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944-195,while conducting field work for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey throughout the islands of the Caribbean and various Latin American countries.

Subject

• Upitz, Pedro
• United States Bureau of Biological Survey

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

There are a variety of pictures from Wetmore's field work in Latin America at this SIA location.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"

Contact information

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

Date

August 19, 1920

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Secretariats
• Animals
• Equipment
• Farms
• Secretaries
• Riacho Pilaga, Argentina
• Field Work
• Birds
• Machinery
• Ornithology
• Argentina
• Farm equipment
• Argentines

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2012-0855 or Wetmore #1382

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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