Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910) Search this
Physical description:
Color: Cyano type; Size: 3w x 5h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Portraits
Date:
c. 1900
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See also Neg. #SIA2009-1360 and 21449 for slightly different pose.
Summary:
Edgar A. Mearns, an ornithologist, research associate, and honorary associate in zoology, with the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was one of three naturalists from the National Museum chosen go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition with Theodore Roosevelt to Africa in 1909. In this pose Mearns is facing towards the left.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 17, Folder: 1