Alexander Wetmore's Friends in Paraguay in 1920

ID: SIA2012-0863 or Wetmore #1408

Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: September 27, 1920

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

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Summary

Carl Hettman, Frank Branson, Fred Hettman, F. Engen, standing with a typical ox cart at Kilometro 80, Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay. A car and a fenced in structure are visible behind them. 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

  • Hettman, Fred
  • 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

September 27, 1920

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Secretariats
  • Secretaries
  • Transportation
  • Engen, F
  • Birds
  • Branson, Frank
  • Automobiles
  • Animals
  • Transportation, Automotive
  • Field Work
  • Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay
  • Hettman, Carl
  • Ornithology
  • Paraguay

Place

Paraguay

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2012-0863 or Wetmore #1408

Physical description

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

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