page_title: Lee Passmore
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Lee Passmore / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Bothriocyrtum californicum (California Trapdoor Spider) Dorsal View Comments on the ID: It is based on information from the Orange County Arthropods web site, http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Bothriocyrtum%20californicum.htm The ID looks very good to me, but I'm not an expert. The Image was taken in Fullerton, CA, USA
context_page_description: Lee Passmore was an American photographer and field naturalist who worked with scientists and staff at the San Diego Natural History Museum documenting the flora and fauna of southern California. Passmore published photo essays on natural history subjects in popular magazines from the 1920s to the 1940s, and contributed photographs to several natural history monographs. Passmore donated his extensive collection of photographic negatives, glass slides, and Kodachrome transparencies to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1958; these include significant collections of images on the natural history of the trapdoor spider, the carpenter bee, and the tomato sphinx moth.
  Passmore also photographed life in early 20th-century San Diego; subjects include the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, Old Town San Diego, the Old Mission Dam, Sunset Cliffs, the tuna industry, and the San Diego harbor and boats. The San Diego Historical Society holds a large number of Passmore's photographs of San Diego subjects.
context_section_description: Born Levi Nickerson Passmore (1874) in Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada to American-born father William H. Passmore and Canadian mother Sarah Ann Smith, Passmore was raised in Canada. He married Georgia Preston in 1899; they had a daughter and two sons. Widowed between 1902 and 1910, Passmore emigrated to the United States and opened a photography studio in San Diego in 1908.  He married Lida Wickey in 1914.
caption: Bothriocyrtum californicum (California trapdoor spider), dorsal view
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