Description: This is a summary of the Smithsonian Institution Archives' 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the scientific field books in the Archives’ collections
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="On Coiba Island, Panama, a convict of the penal colony there, carries on his shoulder 5 drinking coconuts or "pipas" to take to Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore and colleagues who were on the island, February 2, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="A woman and Carlos' sister, who is leaning against a table, are at the open air summer camp above the house on the Isla Iguana, The image was taken by sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore while on an ornithological expedition to Panama, Date unknown, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.
Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.
Description: United States Fish Commission research station, possibly along the Potomac River, 1880s, Glass negative [double exposure], SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5600.
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