View of Waterfall in Brazil, by Mary Agnes Chase
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate for women to conduct such work. Chase joined the Department of Agriculture in 1903 as a botanical illustrator and eventually became Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology, 1907; Assistant Botanist, 1923; and Associate Botanist, 1925. In 1935, became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.
- The original negative number of this image is Chase Negative 1963.
- Summary
- Photo of a waterfall from Mary Agnes Chase's expedition to Brazil in 1929. Unidentified people are on a rock above the waterfall. Chase specialized in the study of grasses at the Smithsonian's U.S. National Herbarium while employed by the United States Department of Agriculture. She conducted extensive field work in South America.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album #1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- 1929
- Standard number
- 96-547 or Chase # 1963
- Author
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
- Subject
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
- United States Dept. of Agriculture
- United States National Herbarium
- United States National Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 2 x 5; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Brazil
- Latin America
- South America
- Topic
- Collectors and collecting
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Field Work
- National Collections
- Women--History
- Agrostology
- Tropical Biology
- Botany
- Scientific expeditions
- Women
- Grasses
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9856
