Album 1 Wyoming, 1910; Alaska, 1911; Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, 1911-1912; includes photographs of Wetmore, Merritt Cary, Daniel Denison Streeter, and Arthur Cleveland Bent
date: label: Date Range
content: 1910-1912
label: Start Date
content: 1910
label: End Date
content: 1912
name: label: Alternate Title
content: Wyoming, 1910
notes: label: Abstract
content: The photograph album documents work Alexander Wetmore conducted to gather data on economic status and geographical distribution of birds and mammals for the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey. Work took place in Wyoming, 1910; Alaska, 1911; Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, 1911-1912. Includes images of Wetmore, Merritt Cary, Daniel Denison Streeter, and Arthur Cleveland Bent. Photographs are numbered, and captioned with location, description, date, and sometimes the lack of a negative. Numbers may correspond with those in film notes of related items. |Subject matter of Wyoming and Alaska includes candid shots of members of the traveling party, terrain and towns seen during travel, camp sites, researchers preparing specimens, sites of Yellowstone National Park, specimens prepared for shipment, cowboys at Frontier Day in Jackson Wyoming, structures of Native Americans, skin boats in Alaska, local people at work, and wildlife and vegetation. Includes locations around Lake Washington near Kirkland, Washington, and Vancouver island.|Photographs for Puerto Rico document vegetation (sometimes with Latin names), terrain, pastures, rivers, farms and plantations, farming methods, rock formations, beaches, town markets. Sites include Río Piedras, El Yunque, Culebrita Island [Isla Culebrita], and Desecheo Island.
place: label: Place
content: Wyoming
label: Place
content: Yellowstone National Park
label: Place
content: Alaska
label: Place
content: Puerto Rico
label: Place
content: Virgin Islands
label: Place
content: Washington
label: Place
content: Río Piedras
label: Place
content: El Yunque
label: Place
content: Culebrita, Isla
label: Place
content: Vancouver Island
label: Place
content: King
label: Place
content: Jackson
label: Place
content: Canada
label: Place
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Ornithology
setName: label: See more records from this collection
content: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated
label: See more records associated with this person
content: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Smithsonian Field Book Project
identifier: label: Accession #
content: SIA RU007006
objectType: label: Record type
content: Fieldbook record
label: Object Type
content: Field notes
label: Object Type
content: Photograph albums
objectRights: label: Access Information
content: Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu.
physicalDescription: label: Collection name
content: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated
label: Physical Description
content: 1 photograph album
label: Physical Location
content: Smithsonian Institution Archives
label: Sublocation
content: Box 169 Folder 1