Alexander Wetmore and Henri Pittier in Venezuela
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Alexander Wetmore collected bird specimens for the US National Museum in Venezuela, in 1937.
- Summary
- Alexander Wetmore, sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist, and Henri Pittier, in Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela, 24 October 1937. Pittier was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist, who dedicated many years to the scientific study of Venezuela and began the Venezuelan National Park history.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7006, Box 174, Album 1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.eduv
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- October 24, 1937
- Standard number
- SIA2010-1238 and 389
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Pittier, Henri
- Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 3w x 3.75h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Venezuela
- Ocumare de la Costa (Venezuela)
- Topic
- Alexander Wetmore Papers
- Venezuela
- Scientific expeditions
- Geographers
- Botany
- Botanists
- Ornithologists
- Secretaries
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Record ID
- siris_sic_6645
