View of Waterfall in Brazil, by Mary Agnes Chase

ID: 96-547 or Chase # 1963

Creator: Chase, Agnes 1869-1963

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1929

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

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Summary

Photo of a waterfall from Mary Agnes Chase's expedition to Brazil in 1929. Unidentified people are on a rock above the waterfall. Chase specialized in the study of grasses at the Smithsonian's U.S. National Herbarium while employed by the United States Department of Agriculture. She conducted extensive field work in South America.

Author

Chase, Agnes 1869-1963

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) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate for women to conduct such work. Chase 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 1963.

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

96-547 or Chase # 1963

Physical description

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

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