Matthew and Marion Stirling in Veracruz, Mexico
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Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1939
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 174, Album 1
Matthew W. and Marion I. Stirling at Boca San Miguel, Veracruz, Mexico, on 15 April 1939, dressed in field clothes, are standing outside a building with a wall made of horizontal boards and a thatched roof. Matthew Stirling was director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. They are there to conduct anthropological field work at Veracruz, Mexico.
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Alexander Wetmore collected bird specimens for the United States National Museum in Mexico, 1939. He briefly joined Stirling in Veracruz, where the Stirlings were doing anthropological field work.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 174, Album 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1939
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Mexico
2004-11241 or 577
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White; Size: 3 x 4; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print