Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white ; Size: 10w x 8h ; Type of Image: Person, candid ; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Place:
Panama
Soná, Veraguas (Panama)
Date:
May 31, 1953
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:
Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian, examines bird skins laid out to dry in boxes on top of tables in Sona, Veraguas, Panama. Wetmore made numerous trips to Panama to collect bird specimens.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore Papers, Box 179, Album: Panama 1953; and Record Unit 9516, Box 2, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews