Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated
Physical Description:
1 photograph album
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 173 Folder 2
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Photograph albums
Place:
Europe
Amsterdam
Spain
United Kingdom
France
Asturias
León
Netherlands
Date Range:
1930-1938
Start Date:
1930
End Date:
1938
Abstract:
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.
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