Albert Spear Hitchcock - brief report on a trip to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, May 25, 1923-February 18, 1924
date: label: Date Range
content: 1923-1924
label: Start Date
content: 19230525
label: End Date
content: 19240218
notes: label: Abstract
content: Hitchcock documents his traveled to studying the grazing industry of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in 1924 with a brief report and collection of black and white photographs. Specimens collected included all kinds of flowering plants. The Gray Herbarium of Harvard University and New York Botanical Garden received were both funding sources for the trip, and received specimen sets matching what was collected for the National Herbarium. The field book includes an itinerary of the trip, details about travel, agriculture, horse feed, grazing industry, topography and climate of the countries. The majority of the notebook is composed of images, with detailed captions.|Subject matter of photographs includes images of topography and climate of the countries (plains, terraced hillsides, slopes) and images documenting fundamentals of daily life (home construction, fuel sources, work in town and in the field). Specific subject matter includes: grazing areas and structures of the Chuquibambilla Experiment Station, Peru; care of sheep herds; landscape of Ollantaitambo [Ollantaytambo], Peru; plains of southern Bolivia; cultivated fields in Ecuador; Hitchcock's caravan; partially and fully constructed houses of lower and upper class; commonly used local building materials and methods; common fuel sources like peat, roots, and yareta; ranches; and villages near Guayaquil, Ecuador.
place: label: Place
content: Peru
label: Place
content: Ecuador
label: Place
content: Bolivia
label: Place
content: Quito
label: Place
content: Guayaquil
label: Place
content: Chimborazo
label: Place
content: Ollantaytambo
label: Place
content: Chuquibambilla
label: Place
content: Oroya
label: Place
content: Arequipa
topic: label: Topic
content: Botany
label: Topic
content: Botanists
label: Topic
content: Grasses
label: Topic
content: Grazing
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
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content: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965
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content: Hitchcock, A. S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Smithsonian Field Book Project
identifier: label: Accession #
content: SIA RU000229
objectType: label: Record type
content: Fieldbook record
label: Object Type
content: Field notes
label: Object Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
objectRights: label: Access Information
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physicalDescription: label: Collection name
content: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965
label: Physical Description
content: 1 notebook
label: Physical Location
content: Smithsonian Institution Archives
label: Sublocation
content: Box 17