Object Details
- Author
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
- Subject
- Bandeira, Maria
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Grasses
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Maria Bandeira accompanied Mary Agnes Chase for this part of her second trip to Brazil. Mary Agnes Chase. Later heard from P. Campos Porto that Bandeira entered a convent, the last mention of her. There is no information about how long she remained there.
- Summary
- Maria Bandeira, of the Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro, is on a trail below Macieras, Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil. Maria Bandeira accompanied Mary Agnes Chase for this part of her second trip to Brazil. 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
- Standard number
- SIA2009-4230 and Chase 1854
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 3w x 5h; Type of Image: Person, Candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- South America
- Brazil
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Botany
- Field Work
- Scientific expeditions
- Mt. Itatiaia, Brazil
- Botanical specimens
- Botanists
- Collectors and collecting
- Record ID
- siris_sic_6561
