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

Psidium(?), Bahia City, Brazil, 19665, May 28, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Opuntia curassavica, Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, February 22, 1913 (4" x 6" negative)

Hylocereus costaricensis, Costa Rica (07233, C. Werckle) (8" x 10" negative)

Elaphrium, east of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil, 19750, June 4, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Furcraea tuberosa Ait., Antigua, British West Indies, 3361, February 8, 1913 (4" x 6" negative)

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

Plate XXIV Film 9, Nanzi, a legume, with queer pods, Duran, 253, November 7, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate IX Film 12, Woman selling tree tomatoes, 92 (4" x 5" negative)

Palm, Santo Domingo City, Santo Domingo, March 9, 1913 (4" x 6" negative)

Araucaria braziliensis, base of Itatiaya, Brazil, 20427, July 27, 1915 (two 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate IV Film 2, Cabuya in flower, Huigra, 30, August 22, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate XIV Film 9, Acacia tree, La Toma, 141, October 4, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate VII Film 11, Detail of bark of roja cinchona tree, Papayal Hacienda, kilom 103, G & Q Railroad, 68, September 8, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Opuntia sulphurea, Portrerillos, Mendoza, 21001, September 2, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Plate VIII Film 11, Landscape, mountain black, range of mountains, road in fore, near Biblian, 79, September 16, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

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

Plate XIII Film 7, Landscape, hut on top of mount, 127 (4" x 5" negative)

Hylocereus, Nictheroy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20331, July 20, 1915 (4" x 6" negative)

Plate XVIII Film 6, The beach at Puna, a bayou running in tree of both sides, Puna, 183, October 19, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate VI Film 7, Small opuntia near Cuenca Ferrocarril Building at Sibambe, 52, August 29, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Cephalocereus, Horto Florestal, Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil, 19731, June 3, 1915 (two 4" x 6" negatives)

Plate XXV Film 4, Waterfront of Guayaquil, 260, November 8, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)

Plate I Film 12, Algaroba tree, a sort of locust, on path leading down past hut of Senor Morley's majordomo on Licay Hacienda, Huigra, this picture was spoiled, 8, August 16, 1918 (4" x 5" negative)