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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1; Color: color; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Place:
Panama
Taboga Island (Panama)
Panama, Panama, Taboga Island
Date:
March 14, 1952
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:
Watson M. Perrygo, taxidermist, exhibits preparator and zoological exhibits worker in the Department of Zoology, United States National Museum, and Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, stand beside a truck carrying the identification of the United States Air Force (U.S.A.F. A-6331). They are on Taboga Island, Panama. Perrygo and Wetmore went on many trips to collect bird specimens.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews; Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 178, Album: Panama 1952
