Title
Album 2 Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1940; Panama, 1944 : includes photographs of Wetmore and Joseph P. E. Morrison
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
1940-1944
Notes
The photograph album documents Alexander Wetmore's work in Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1940; Panama, 1944. Photographs sometimes include numbers, date, and caption with description and location. Includes images of vegetation and the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory; site of excavations at Finca Piedades, Costa Rica; an airplane and resulting crowd at the Liberia airport; colleagues; vegetation and terrain; countryside and shorelines; lodgings; Mayan ruins; towns and structures; Quebrada in Costa Rica; the pack of supplies moving between sites; candid scenes with military who assisted Wetmore's efforts in Panama; camp site on San Jose island, Panama.Includes photographs of Wetmore and Joseph P. E. Morrison. Includes sites in the vicinity of: Guanacaste (Costa Rica) and Pearl Islands (Panama).
Subjects
Barro Colorado
,
Canal Zone
,
Costa Rica
,
Field notes
,
Guanacaste
,
Hacienda Santa María
,
Liberia
,
Ornithology
,
Panama
,
Perlas, Archipiélago de las
,
Photograph albums
,
United States National Museum
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109663
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