Title
Album 1 Pacific Islands, 1923 (Tanager Expedition), volume 2
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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
1923
Notes
The photograph album (volume 2) documents Alexander Wetmore's participation in the Tanager Expedition, 1923, while working for the U.S. Department Agriculture (USDA), Bureau of Biological Survey. The expedition was conducted with the cooperation of the U.S. Navy, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, and USDA. Photographs sometimes include numbers, date, and caption with description and location. Images include shorelines, examples of vegetation and wildlife of the islands visited, old camp and equipment of feather poachers, camp sites of the expedition, candid images of expedition participants, and rat traps, sites around Honolulu, several images of Albatross on Laysan Island, Includes photographs of Wetmore, William G. Anderson, Eric Schlemmer, Charles Howard Edmondson, and Stanley Crittenden Ball.
Subjects
Field notes
,
Hawaii
,
Hawaiian Islands
,
Honolulu
,
Laysan Island
,
Oahu Island
,
Ornithology
,
Peale Island
,
Photograph albums
,
Tanager (AM-5)
,
Tanager Expedition (1923)
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United States
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United States Dept. of Agriculture
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United States Navy
,
Wake Island
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109670
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