Album 2 Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1940; Panama, 1944 : includes photographs of Wetmore and Joseph P. E. Morrison

Related Titles

Contained In: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated

Series: SIA RU007006

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1940-1944

Notes

The photograph album documents Alexander Wetmore's work in Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1940; Panama, 1944. Photographs sometimes include numbers, date, and caption with description and location. Includes images of vegetation and the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory; site of excavations at Finca Piedades, Costa Rica; an airplane and resulting crowd at the Liberia airport; colleagues; vegetation and terrain; countryside and shorelines; lodgings; Mayan ruins; towns and structures; Quebrada in Costa Rica; the pack of supplies moving between sites; candid scenes with military who assisted Wetmore's efforts in Panama; camp site on San Jose island, Panama.Includes photographs of Wetmore and Joseph P. E. Morrison. Includes sites in the vicinity of: Guanacaste (Costa Rica) and Pearl Islands (Panama).

Subjects

Barro Colorado , Canal Zone , Costa Rica , Field notes , Guanacaste , Hacienda Santa María , Liberia , Ornithology , Panama , Perlas, Archipiélago de las , Photograph albums , United States National Museum

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109663