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Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 :postcards, some with handwritten notes

by: Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle) 1887-1977

Publication date: 1926

Topics: Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition (1925-1927), Zoology, Crustaceans, South America, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Guayaquil, Salinas, Paita, Salaverry, Callao, Juan Fernández, Archipiélago, Chile, Falkland Islands

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English

The photographs and postcards document Waldo Schmitt's work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Images are stored in envelopes, and a folder includes a list of photographs with identification numbers, dates, and descriptions include locations. Subject matter includes images of waterfront and street scenes in Guayaquil; worm colonies; fish markets; Museo Archeologica in Callao, Peru; accommodations; colleagues and their families; shorelines; lobster; Junge's Zoo in Conception, Chile; and local inhabitants fishing. Locations include the vicinity of Panama, Peru (Paita, Salaverry, Callao), Ecuador (Guayaquil, Salinas, ), Chile (Juan Fernández Islands), and Falkland Islands

Abstract: The photographs and postcards document Waldo Schmitt's work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Images are stored in envelopes, and a folder includes a list of photographs with identification numbers, dates, and descriptions include locations. Subject matter includes images of waterfront and street scenes in Guayaquil; worm colonies; fish markets; Museo Archeologica in Callao, Peru; accommodations; colleagues and their families; shorelines; lobster; Junge's Zoo in Conception, Chile; and local inhabitants fishing. Locations include the vicinity of Panama, Peru (Paita, Salaverry, Callao), Ecuador (Guayaquil, Salinas, ), Chile (Juan Fernández Islands), and Falkland Islands.