Mary Agnes Chase in Brazil

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Chase, Agnes 1869-1963

United States Dept. of Agriculture

United States National Herbarium

Notes

Album has been rehoused; Original location was RU229, Box 16; Current location is RU229, Box 20, Album 1. Chase negative number 1970

Summary

On an expedition to Brazil in 1929, Mary Agnes Chase, honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium, United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is standing beside a horse. Chase's colleague is standing next to her. They are standing in an area with tall grass. Chase is looking up at him. Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, went on an expedition to Brazil in 1929 to collect botanical specimens. Mary Agnes Chase was a botanist specializing in the study of grasses.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1929

Standard number

SIA2009-2576 and 96-544 and Chase # 1970

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Group, candid

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 2 x 5; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Place

Brazil

South America

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Collectors and collecting

Explorations and Expeditions

Field Work

National Collections

Women--History

Agrostology

Tropical Biology

Botany

Scientific expeditions

Women

Grasses

Botanical specimens

Botanists

Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Metadata Usage

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Record ID

siris_sic_9854