Photographs of Lepidopterists, undated
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Descriptive Entry...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 1 Container Listing ...... 3 Photographs of Lepidopterists http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217582
Collection Overview
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected]
Title: Photographs of Lepidopterists
Identifier: Record Unit 7427
Date: undated
Extent: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Creator:: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
Language: Language of Materials: English
Administrative Information
Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7427, Photographs of Lepidopterists
Descriptive Entry
This collection of photographs of noted lepidopterists active primarily from the 1840s through the 1950s was assembled over a period of years by staff of the Department of Entomology. Many of the lepidopterists pictured worked for either the United States National Museum or the United States Department of Agriculture. Included are photographs of August Busck, Carl Heinrich, William Schaus, and John Bernhard Smith. The majority of the images are not original prints; they were cut out of professional journals and books. Also included is one copper daguerreotype plate.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Entomologists Entomology Lepidopterists
Types of Materials: Black-and-white photographs Manuscripts
Page 1 of 3 Photographs of Lepidopterists http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217582
Names: Busck, August Heinrich, Carl Schaus, William Smith, John Bernhard, 1858-1912 United States National Museum. Division of Insects United States. Department of Agriculture
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Container Listing
Box 1
Box 1 of 1 Folder 1 William Barnes, 1860-1930. Two photographs. Digital Content: William Barnes, undated [Image No. SIA2010-0467] Digital Content: William Barnes, undated [Image No. SIA2010-0466]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 2 Foster Hendrickson Benjamin, 1895-1936 Digital Content: Foster Henderson Benjamin, c. 1927 [Image No. SIA2010-0463]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 3 August Busck, 1870-1944. Daguerreotype plate. Digital Content: August Busck, undated [Image No. SIA2015-002179]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 4 William Henry Edwards, 1822-1909 Digital Content: William Henry Edwards, c. 1900 [Image No. SIA2010-0468]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 5 August Radcliffe Grote, 1841-1903 Digital Content: Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist, c. 1893 [Image No. SIA2010-0469]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 6 Wilhelm Carl Paul Gottlieb Heinrich, 1880-1955 Digital Content: Carl Heinrich, c. 1940 [Image No. SIA2010-0470]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 7 George Duryea Hulst, 1846-1900 Digital Content: George Duryea Hulst, c. 1876 [Image No. SIA2010-0471]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 8 William Forsell Kirby, 1844-1912 Digital Content: William Forsell Kirby, c. 1900 [Image No. SIA2010-0472]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 9 Edward Meyrick, 1854-1938
Box 1 of 1 Folder 10 William Schaus, 1858-1942 Digital Content: William Schaus (1858-1942), undated [Image No. SIA2015-002180]
Box 1 of 1 Folder 11 Adalbert Seitz, 1869-1938
Box 1 of 1 Folder 12 Henry T. Skinner, 1861-1926
Box 1 of 1 Folder 13 John Bernhard Smith, 1858-1912
Box 1 of 1 Folder 14 Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker, 1836-1901
Box 1 of 1 Folder 15 Walter Richard Sweadner, 1903-?
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