Mary Agnes Chase, Botanist
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Object Details
- Date
- c. 1960
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
- United States Dept. of Agriculture
- United States National Herbarium
- United States National Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963), Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, seated at a desk with herbarium sheets. Chase specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America. Chase is sitting at a work table comparing grass specimens, c. 1960.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 5, Folder: 30
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Topic
- National Collections
- Specimens
- Women--History
- Agrostology
- Tropical Biology
- Botany
- Grasses
- Botanists
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- SIA2009-0712 or MAH45234
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10039