Album 1 Wyoming, 1910; Alaska, 1911; Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, 1911-1912; includes photographs of Wetmore, Merritt Cary, Daniel Denison Streeter, and Arthur Cleveland Bent

Title Variants

Alternative: Wyoming, 1910

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

1910-1912

Notes

The photograph album documents work Alexander Wetmore conducted to gather data on economic status and geographical distribution of birds and mammals for the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey. Work took place in Wyoming, 1910; Alaska, 1911; Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, 1911-1912. Includes images of Wetmore, Merritt Cary, Daniel Denison Streeter, and Arthur Cleveland Bent. Photographs are numbered, and captioned with location, description, date, and sometimes the lack of a negative. Numbers may correspond with those in film notes of related items. Subject matter of Wyoming and Alaska includes candid shots of members of the traveling party, terrain and towns seen during travel, camp sites, researchers preparing specimens, sites of Yellowstone National Park, specimens prepared for shipment, cowboys at Frontier Day in Jackson Wyoming, structures of Native Americans, skin boats in Alaska, local people at work, and wildlife and vegetation. Includes locations around Lake Washington near Kirkland, Washington, and Vancouver island.Photographs for Puerto Rico document vegetation (sometimes with Latin names), terrain, pastures, rivers, farms and plantations, farming methods, rock formations, beaches, town markets. Sites include R弛 Piedras, El Yunque, Culebrita Island [Isla Culebrita], and Desecheo Island.

Subjects

Alaska , Canada , Culebrita, Isla , El Yunque , Field notes , Jackson , King , Ornithology , Photograph albums , Puerto Rico , R弛 Piedras , United States , United States Dept. of Agriculture , Vancouver Island , Virgin Islands , Washington , Wyoming , Yellowstone National Park

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.107338