Title
Album 2 Panama, 1959, volume 1 : includes photographs of Wetmore and Beatrice Thielen Wetmore
Title Variants
Alternative:
Panama, 1959, Part 1
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
1959
Notes
The photograph album (Volume 1) documents Alexander Wetmore's collecting efforts in Panama in 1959. Photographs are numbered, and captioned with location, description, and date. Subject matter includes waterways and shorelines; travel by cayuco; villages and individual structures; candid images of colleagues, Choco Indians, Panamanian employees,and families; preparation of specimens; transport of supplies; examples of local building practices; camp sites; vegetation of collecting sites; and examples of jungle rats (source of blood samples). Locations include the vicinity of Darien in the Canal Zone. Includes photographs of Wetmore and Beatrice Thielen Wetmore.
Subjects
Canal Zone
,
Choco Indians
,
Darien
,
Field notes
,
Ornithology
,
Panama
,
Photograph albums
,
United States National Museum
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.111664
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