Alexander Wetmore's Collecting Outfit and Sulky in Argentina

ID: SIA2012-0873 or B. S. 22162

Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: November 8, 1920

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

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Summary

Alexander Wetmore's collecting outfit and horse and sulky ready to leave camp, 15 miles south of Cabo Antonio at Lavalle, Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 8, 1920. 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

November 8, 1920

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Collecting Outfit
  • Secretariats
  • Animals
  • Secretaries
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Horses
  • Field Work
  • Birds
  • Carriages and carts
  • Ornithology
  • Argentina

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Animal, candid

ID Number

SIA2012-0873 or B. S. 22162

Physical description

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

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