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Descriptive Entry

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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Record ID

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Cereus flagelliformis, Department of Agriculture greenhouse, May 17, 1907 (two 5" x 7" negatives)

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

Plate XI Film 8, A cereus flower, Cuenca, 104, September 23, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Pereskia, Machado Portella, Bahia, Brazil, June 21, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

43.5 Cacti (unspecified)/people/animals (4" x 5" negative)

Opuntia sulphurea, near Mendoza, Argentina, 20980, September 1, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Plate XVII Film 5, Cactus clump on rock near river on road from Portovelo to Santa Rosa, 170, October 15, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Pilocereus, Machado Portella, Bahia, June 21, 1915 (two 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate XI Film 9, Cordero's garden, clouded mountains, river, Cuenca, 105, September 23, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

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

Orchid, originally from Santo Domingo, March 25, 1913 (two 4" x 6" negatives)

"Cedar of Lebanon", District of Columbia, 1913 (three 4" x 5" negatives)

Opuntia bahiensis, Toca da Onca, Bahia, 20068, June 27, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Cephalocereus (setosus), Queimadas, Bahia, 19846, June 9, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Rhipsalis regnellii, plate 56 (5" x 7" negative)

Opuntia, pink flowers, ray filter use, Antigua, British West Indies, 28, February 13, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

Plate V Film 5, Opuntia on railroad to Quito between Senor Martinas' Arboretum and Ambato in a ravine, 45 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate II Film 9, Chamburo, a large fruit obtained at Huigra, 16, August 17, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate III Film 6, "Guava tree," sort of a locust, with an enormous pod of which pulp is eaten, with big black beans, tree below Huigra near railroad track, 23 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XVI Film 7, Landscape, Portovelo, 162, October 7, 1918 (1 4" x 5" negative)

Plate VI Film 6, Rathbunia, cactus flower, Sibambe, 51, August 29, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate III Film 12, Near view of bamboo construction on church at Huigra, on bluff, 28, August 22, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Hylocereus, Machado Portella, Bahia, 19984, June 22, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Carnegiea gigantea, flowered in Department of Agriculture greenhouse, 1916 (four 5" x 7" negatives)