Title
Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia, 1940
Title Variants
Alternative:
Scrapbook, Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia, 1940 (1)
Related Titles
Contained In:
William M. Mann and Lucile Quarry Mann field books, 1914-1940
Series:
SIA RU007293
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Mann, Lucile Quarry, 1897-1986
Mann, William M., 1886-1960
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1940
Notes
This is part of a scrapbook from the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia, 1940. Lucile Mann collected news clippings, correspondence, and photographs documenting expedition and press coverage. Photograph subject matter includes: the expedition at camp and preparing to embark to next site; a man making animal cages from palm fiber; local people of Bendaja and Bellyella [Belle Yella]; and girls returning from the Grigri bush. News clippings are mostly from the Washington Post, and cover topics of the expedition dealing with legionary ants; collecting of water olivets, pygmy hippos, and birds; and the Manns' initiation in to a Snake Club, which is discussed in the expedition diary in the collection. Photographs have detailed captions, and in several cases are a variation of photographs found in the expedition photograph album that is part of this collection.
Subjects
Belle Yella
,
Bindaja
,
Field notes
,
Grigri
,
Liberia
,
Scrapbooks
,
Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia (1940)
,
Wild animal collecting
,
Zoology
,
Zoos
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.156211
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