Results for "Latin America"
"Highlights of Latin American Archeology" Exhibit, Hall 23, Natural History Building
- Date: 1954 Circa 1954
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
"Highlights of Latin American Archeology" Exhibit, Hall 23, Natural History Building
- Date: 1954 Circa 1954
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
The Tropical Travels of George C. Wheeler - Part I
- Date: January 10, 2013
- Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.
- Webpage
Sharing Plants, Animals, and Friendships
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=110,left]Exchanging specimens is essential in botanical research: Herbaria swap their duplicates in return for specimens they lack. Such international trading is based on relations established through correspondence and research trips, relations that endure through generations of botanists. By the early twentieth century,
- SI History Chronology
"Americas" Opens at Renwick Gallery
- Date: October 19, 1976
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
- Date: September 17, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2013 at the Smithsonian!
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Credits
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]The exhibition from which this website is derived was exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Gallery in 1996 to commemorate the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary.This online exhibition was developed and written by a working group consisting of Dr. Jane MacLaren Walsh, Dr. Pamela M. Henson, and Dr. Margaret R. Dittemore and
The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III
- Date: February 7, 2013
- Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Panama Law No. 57, Authorizing the contract between the Government of Panama and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: 06/06/1974
- Creator: Panama National Council on Legislation (translated by U.S. Dept of State Division of Language Services)
- Creator: Panama National Council on Legislation (translated by U.S. Dept of State Division of Language Services)
Dr. Herbert C. Clark at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama City, Panama
- Date: April 7, 1948
- Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
- Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
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Ephraim George Squier
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=200,left]Ephraim George Squier was a self-educated journalist and diplomat who made substantial contributions to the archaeology and ethnology of the Americas. Born in 1821, he worked as a journalist in New York and Connecticut before moving to Ohio. There Squier developed an interest in the large earthen mounds believed to
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José Castulo Zeledón
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born in Las Anonas, near San José, Costa Rica, Zeledón was the scion of a distinguished family whose intellectual gifts and love of learning were common traits. His father, don Manuel Zeledón, was governor of the district of San José for thirty years, and a man of great integrity. From earliest childhood José was interested in birds, and began serious study as
