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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 3h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exterior
Date:
August 4, 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:
Residence and offices of the Governor of Formosa in Formosa, Argentina on August 4, 1920. This photograph shows most of the building along with its large covered porch that circles the entire structure. There is a small horse and buggy with two unidentified people next the building. 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"
