Mary Agnes Chase in Brazil

Object Details

Author: Unknown
Subject: Chase, Agnes 1869-1963; United States Dept. of Agriculture; United States National Herbarium

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: Album has been rehoused; Original location was RU229, Box 16; Current location is RU229, Box 20, Album 1. Chase negative number 1970
Summary: On an expedition to Brazil in 1929, Mary Agnes Chase, honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium, United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is standing beside a horse. Chase's colleague is standing next to her. They are standing in an area with tall grass. Chase is looking up at him. Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, went on an expedition to Brazil in 1929 to collect botanical specimens. Mary Agnes Chase was a botanist specializing in the study of grasses.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Photo Album
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

1929

Physical description: Color: Black and White; Size: 2 x 5; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Collectors and collecting; Explorations and Expeditions; Field Work; National Collections; Women--History; Agrostology; Tropical Biology; Botany; Scientific expeditions; Women; Grasses; Botanical specimens; Botanists; Smithsonian Institution--Employees