Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 :postcards, some with handwritten notes

Related Titles

Contained In: Waldo L. Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978

Series: SIA RU007231

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

By

Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1926-1927

Notes

The photographs and postcards document Waldo Schmitt's work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Images are stored in envelopes, and a folder includes a list of photographs with identification numbers, dates, and descriptions include locations. Subject matter includes images of waterfront and street scenes in Guayaquil; worm colonies; fish markets; Museo Archeologica in Callao, Peru; accommodations; colleagues and their families; shorelines; lobster; Junge's Zoo in Conception, Chile; and local inhabitants fishing. Locations include the vicinity of Panama, Peru (Paita, Salaverry, Callao), Ecuador (Guayaquil, Salinas, ), Chile (Juan Fernández Islands), and Falkland Islands.

Subjects

Black-and-white photographs , Callao , Chile , Crustaceans , Ecuador , Falkland Islands , Field notes , Guayaquil , Juan Fernández, Archipiélago , Paita , Panama , Peru , Salaverry , Salinas , South America , Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedi , Zoology

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.155668