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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 5w x 3h ; Type of Image: Person, candid; animal; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Animal, candid
Place:
Panama
Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
Date:
February 28, 1951
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Photograph included in the transcript of the Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, November 13, 1978, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Summary:
United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir. Perrygo made several trips to Panama with Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore to collect bird specimens.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 178, Album: Panama, 1951; Record Unit 9516, Box 2, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews
