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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 9w x 7.5h ; Type of Image: Group, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Group, candid
Photographic print
Date:
c. 1961
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
This image is included in the Walter A. Shropshire Oral History Interviews, RU 9597.
Summary:
Victor B. Elstad and William H. Klein cutting the hypocotyl hook out of each bean seedling and placing hypocotyl hooks in the Petri dishes that can be seen in the center. Elstad and Klein worked for the Smithsonian's Division of Radiation and Organisms, which at the time was housed in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle. " Later the Division was abolished and its work continued by the Radiation Biology Laboratory, which later combined with the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, to become known as the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9597, Box 1, Folder: Walter Shropshire Oral History Interviews
