View from Mountaintop, Brazil

Summary

View from top of a mountain in Brazil from Mary Agnes Chase's expedition to Brazil in 1929. Chase can be seen in a large hat in lower left corner of photo. Chase specialized in the study of grasses at the Smithsonian's United States National Herbarium, while employed as a botanist for the United States Department of Agriculture. She conducted extensive field work in South America.

Subject

• Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
• United States Dept. of Agriculture
• United States National Herbarium
• United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) joined the Department of Agriculture in 1903 as a botanical illustrator and eventually became Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology, 1907; Assistant Botanist, 1923; and Associate Botanist, 1925. In 1935, became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.
• The original negative number of this image is Chase Negative 1961.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album #1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1929

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Scientific expeditions
• Agrostology
• Employees
• Plants
• Grasses
• History
• Tropical Biology
• Landscapes
• Collectors and collecting
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Explorations and Expeditions
• Field Work
• National Collections
• Women--History
• Botany
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

• South America
• Brazil
• Latin America

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Landscape

ID Number

96-545 or Chase # 1961

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 2 x 5; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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