Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Blake, Doris Holmes
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Entomology
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects
- United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Doris Holmes Blake (1892-1978), with her pet iguana on her shoulder sits at her desk. Blake was a coleopterist, who worked in the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Entomology from 1928 until 1933, and where she continued as an unpaid research associate until her death.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit7310, Box 36, Folder: 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1978
- Standard number
- SIA2010-1590
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 5w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Beetles
- Insects
- Entomology
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Entomologists
- Iguanas
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13428
