Mary Agnes Chase on Horseback in Brazil 1929

ID: SIA2009-2575 and 96-549 and Chase # 1967

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1929

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

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Summary

Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is on horseback in front of a wood hut on an expedition in Brazil in 1929, to collect grass specimens. She wears a large sun hat and gazes at a second horse carrying supplies. In the background, several huts made from logs can be seen. Mary Agnes Chase was a feminist and botanist specializing in the study of grasses.

Subject

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

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Album has been rehoused; original location was RU229, Box 16; current location is RU229, Box 20, Album 1. Chase negative number 1967

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
  • Botanical specimens
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Botany
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Explorations and Expeditions
  • Field Work
  • National Collections
  • Women--History
  • Botanists
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

  • South America
  • Brazil

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2009-2575 and 96-549 and Chase # 1967

Physical description

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

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