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