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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 3h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Landscape
Date:
July 5, 1920
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
There are a variety of pictures from Wetmore's field work in Latin America at this SIA location.
Summary:
Photograph of Charadrai, a typical town in the newly settled section of Chaco, Argentina. Several small one-story buildings are visible in this image. This photograph was taken by Alexander Wetmore, noted ornithologist and sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944-1952, while conducting field work for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey throughout the islands of the Caribbean and various Latin American countries.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"
