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This accession consists of images of cacti maintained by curator Joseph Nelson Rose. Most images were taken in Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, the British West Indies, and the Danish West Indies. Some images of people, buildings, and landscapes are also present. Materials are mostly glass plate negatives and nitrate negatives. There is also a small amount of black and white photographs, illustrations, sketches, and notes.

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Place

Ecuador

Brazil

Argentina

Dominican Republic

West Indies, British

Danish West Indies

Topic

Botany

Cactus

Botanists

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Extent

1.58 cu. ft. (1 document box) (3 5x8 boxes)

Date

1899-1918

Archival Repository

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Identifier

Accession 13-280

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Scientific illustrations

Sketches

Black-and-white photographs

Nitrate materials

Glass negatives

Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-280, United States National Museum. Division of Plants, Curatorial Records

Genre/Form

Manuscripts

Scientific illustrations

Sketches

Black-and-white photographs

Nitrate materials

Glass negatives

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Accession 13-280

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55.4 Cacti (unspecified) (4" x 5" negative)

Mamilaria sallilliensis (?), see Herb. (5" x 7" negative)

Plate VII Film 3, 10 ribbed chamburo, a small yellow fruit, 60, September 7, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate VII Film 7, Trunk of tall tagua, Papayal Hacienda, 64, September 8, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XIV Film 1, Blackberry bushes, Loja, 133, September 30, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XII Film 12, Landscape, paramos in distance, a few trees on top of hill, long fore, Nabon to Ona, 120, September 26, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate VIII Film 8, Cordilleras stretching across picture, cultivated valley, pointed peaks on paramo, to north of Canar, 76, September 16, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Opuntia, English Harbor, Antigua, British West Indies, 7, February 8, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

Plate XX Film 9, Close view of a wooden bowl of blueberries, at the open mart, Quito, 210, October 28, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XXIV Film 11, Close view on an annona growing in water, 255 (4" x 5" negative)

Unidentified (five 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate VIII Film 4, Detail of a red passaflora on fence, on east side of Casa Grande, Huigra, 72, September 10, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Views near Portrerillos, Mendoza, Argentina, September 2, 1915 (two 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate XXV Film 9, Manta Ecuador, 264, November 10, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XI Film 5, A small artocarpus in the plaza at Cuenca, Senor P. stands behind it, 102, September 23, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

(?), Boggy Peak, Antigua, British West Indies, February 12, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

41.5 Palm trees (4" x 5" negative)

Opuntia, Saint Kitts, British West Indies, February 3, 1913 (4" x 6" negative)

Terebinthus, English Harbor, Antigua, British West Indies, 6, February 8, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

35.5 Cacti (unspecified) (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XVIII Film 3, Cephalocereus, tree cactus, leaning against tree with yellow flowers, thicket below, tree high above, Santa Rosa, 180, October 18, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate II Film 8, Cactus fruit from Lemaireocereus godingia, having spines, obtained from Licay Hacienda, Huigra, 15, August 17, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XIII Film 11, Cardiospermum loxensis, Loja, 131, September 30, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XIII Film 2, A rathbunia in flower, pink flower, Nabon to Ona, 122, September 26, 1918 ( black and white photograph)