Title
Album 2 Europe, 1930, 1934, 1938
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
1930-1938
Notes
Alexander Wetmore travels in Europe, 1930, 1934, and 1938. Photographs document travel to Amsterdam to attend the VII International Ornithological Congress and a collecting trip to Spain, 1930; England to attend the VIII International Ornithological Congress at Oxford; and France to attend the IX International Ornithological Congress in Rouen. Photographs sometimes include numbers, date, and caption with description and location. Subject matter includes Natural Sciences Centers, National Museums; and members of the international congresses. In Spain he photographed locations in the provinces of Oviedo [Asturias] and León, including collecting sites in the hillsides, fields, rivers, mountains, and valleys; buildings; and towns including Puente de los Fierros. Colleagues photographed include Wetmore, Einer Lonnberg, A. Lansborough Thomson, H. F. Witherby, Alfred Laubmann, Percy Roycroft Lowe, W. L. Sclater, Erwin Stresemann, James Henry Fleming, W. H. Witherby, B. W. Tucker, Ludlow Griscom, Wilfrid B. Alexander, Adriaan Joseph van Rossem, Georges Olivier, Jean Theodore Delacour, Hans Noll, Humphrey A. Gilbert, Alfred Ezra, Arthur A. Allen, David A. Bannerman, and Gregory Macalister Mathews.
Subjects
Amsterdam
,
Asturias
,
Europe
,
Field notes
,
France
,
León
,
Netherlands
,
Ornithology
,
Photograph albums
,
Spain
,
United Kingdom
,
United States National Museum
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109835
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