Wetmore and Perrygo in El Valle, Panama
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintIn El Valle, Cocle, Panama, on 31 March 1951, sixth Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore and taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo at his left are outside a building sitting at a table preparing bird specimens for study at the National Museum of Natural History. Wetmore traveled to Panama every year in the 1950s to conduct field work for his multi-volume work, "The Birds of Panama."
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From Alexander Wetmore photograph album in the Wetmore Papers. Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, November 13, 1976, in Smithsonian Institution Archives. SIA2008-2948 is the same digital image as 2004-11242.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 178, Album: Panama 1951; Record Unit 9516, Box 2, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March 31, 1951
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SIA2008-2948 or 2004-11242 or Wetmore #4548
Color: Black and White; Size: 4 1/2w x 4 1/4h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print Number of Images: 1;