Curatorial Records

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

Object Details

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.

sova.sia.fa13-280

Place

Ecuador

Brazil

Argentina

Dominican Republic

West Indies, British

Danish West Indies

Topic

Botany

Cactus

Botanists

See more items in

Curatorial Records

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

SIA.FA13-280

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FA13-280

Accession 13-280

SIA

Record ID

ebl-1503510549531-1503510549547-0

Showing 699 result(s)

Curatorial Records

Object Details

Descriptive Entry

Place

Topic

See more items in

Extent

Date

Archival Repository

Identifier

Type

Citation

Genre/Form

Record ID

27.5 Man with fish (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XIII Film 9, Landscape valley, river, 129 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XI Film 1, A picture of the old cathedral mission style, Cuenca, the lower is surmounted by the rod, palm leaf and cross, 98, September 24, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Ceiba, near Bolans, Antigua, British West Indies, February 11, 1913 (?) (two 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate XIII Film 2, A rathbunia in flower, pink flower, Nabon to Ona, 122, September 26, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

5-angled fruit, Bahia City, Brazil, May 27, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Raspberry-bee, Antigua, British West Indies, February 11, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

Cereus F., May 25, 1907 (two 5" x 7" negatives)

Agave, English Harbor, Antigua, British West Indies, 3, February 8, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

Plate XXV Film 2, Landscape, waterfront of Guayaquil, taken from the "Gualemala" (?), 258, November 8, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XVII Film 10, Cactus on tree, Limon Playa, 175, October 17, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Palm, near Azua, Santo Domingo, March 20, 1913 (4" x 6" negative)

Plate IV Film 6, Juglans, nogal, walnut tree on Senor P. land, on edge of A., Ambato, 34, August 24, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Copernicia cerifera, east of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil, 19765, June 4, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Pterocactus tuberosa, Portrerillos, Mendoza, Argentina, 21000, September 2, 1915 (three 4" x 6" negatives)

Spondias, east of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil, 19757, June 4, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Plate IX Film 1, Panama straw drying, spread out on the ground and fastened on the line, it is brot from Guayaquil, Azogues, 81, September 16, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Pereskia moorei, Hoehne's collection from Mato Grosso, Brazil (5" x 7" negative)

Opuntia domingensis, road from Azua to sea, Santo Domingo, March 12, 1913 (two 5" x 7" negatives)

Plate XXIV Film 6, Prosopis, a shrub with yellow beans, Duran, 251, November 7, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Cereus, near Bahia City, Brazil, 19667, May 28, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

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

Opuntia, Antigua, British West Indies, 29, 1913 (5" x 7" negative)

Plate XIII Film 8, A hut on the road to Loja, Las Juntas to Loja, 128 (4" x 5" negative)