Color: Black and White and Sepia; Size: 5w x 3h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group
Place:
Brazil
Latin America
South America
Date:
1924-25
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Maria Bandeira accompanied Mary Agnes Chase for this part of her second trip to Brazil. Mary Agnes Chase later heard from P. Campos Porto that Bandeira entered a convent, the last mention of her. There is no information about how long she remained there.
There are digital copies for this image. The first image, SIA2009-4223, is a Sepia copy of the image. The digital copy of this image includes the original caption. The second image, SIA2009-4227, is a Black and White copy of this image. The digital copy of this image does not include the original caption.
The geographic location of this image is approximated by the information provided in the original caption of the image. It is not an exact longitude and latitude.
Summary:
Brazilian botanist Maria Bandeira, of the Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro, with Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, at the summit of Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album
