Alexander Wetmore Papers, 1916-1975
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Descriptive Entry...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 1 Container Listing ...... 2 Alexander Wetmore Papers http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_229239
Collection Overview
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected]
Title: Alexander Wetmore Papers
Identifier: Accession 98-032
Date: 1916-1975
Extent: 0.69 cu. ft. (1 16x20 box)
Creator:: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
Language: Language of Materials: English
Administrative Information
Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-032, Alexander Wetmore Papers
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of one drawing caricaturing Alexander Wetmore on the occasion of his daughter Margaret's birth, and twenty photographs documenting various events in the life of Alexander Wetmore and his second wife Annie Beatrice Wetmore who assembled this collection.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Ornithologists Ornithology
Types of Materials: Black-and-white photographs Color photographs Drawings
Names: Harlan, Margaret Wetmore Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978 Wetmore, Annie Beatrice
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Container Listing
Box 1
Box 1 of 1 Drawing by E. R. Kalmbach (of U. S. Biological Survey) commemorating the birth of Alexander Wetmore's daughter Margaret caricaturing Wetmore, 1916
Wetmore Photographs
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore at Grosvenor dinner, Chevy Chase Club, 1949
Box 1 of 1 Presque Isle, Michigan, June 1951
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore at American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 1954
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore with Laysan Albatross, 1923
Box 1 of 1 Alexander Wetmore and wife Annie Beatrice Wetmore at Tivoli Hotel, Canal Lone, Panama, 1954
Box 1 of 1 Alexander and Annie Beatrice Wetmore with Dixon Murray, Virginia Society of Ornithologists, 1961
Box 1 of 1 Alexander and Annie Beatrice Wetmore at Boca de Paya, Darien, Panama, 1959
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore on Hawsbill Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, 1944
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore with Billy Phelps at boundary Venezuela-Columbia, 1954
Box 1 of 1 Annie Leppenfeldt, Beatrice and Alexander Wetmore at home, Osceola Road, Fall 1972
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore on fossil collecting trip, Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, April 1972
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore with Emelia de Wild, Thanksgiving Dinner at home, 1973
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore with specimen of grouse, at office, June 1974
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore at Freer Gallery dinner celebrating 50th anniversary, 1973
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore birthday at home with daughter Margaret and wife Beatrice, June 18, 1972
Box 1 of 1 Beatrice Wetmore cooking in camp on Boca de Paya, Darien, Panama, 1959
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore feeding geese at an American Ornithologists' Meeting?
Box 1 of 1 Wetmore at Plummers Island in the Potomac, with boys (?) membership award, early 1970s?
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Box 1 of 1 Wetmore with Storrs Olsen at Harlan place in Gloucester, Virginia, Fall 1975
Box 1 of 1 Alexander and Beatrice Wetmore in study at home, Osceola Road, circa 1975
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