Chicken Vendors in Argentina During Wetmore's Field Work

Summary

Photograph of two unidentified chicken vendors in Formosa, Argentina. The man is holding several dead chickens in each hand and the woman is balancing a basket of dead chickens on her head. 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.

Subject

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 26, 1920

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Scientific expeditions
• Secretariats
• Animals
• Baskets
• Secretaries
• Riacho Pilaga, Argentina
• Field Work
• Birds
• Formosa, Argentina
• Ornithology
• Argentina
• Chickens
• Argentines

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2012-0856 or Wetmore #1384

Physical description

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

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