Doris M. Cochran Holding Frog
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Object Details
- Date
- c. 1930s
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Cochran, Doris Mable
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Doris Mable Cochran (1898-1968), herpetologist in the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians of the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Cochran was appointed an aid to Leonhard Stejneger in 1919, Assistant Curator in 1927, Associate Curator in 1942, and Curator in 1956. She retired in 1968. In this picture, she is seated in a wooden chair, looking at a frog she is holding in her hands.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7151, Box 7, Folder 11
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Topic
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- United States National Museum
- Women--History
- Herpetology
- Women
- Museum curators
- Frogs
- Herpetologists
- Animals
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- 96-956
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Sepia; Size: 4w x 5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9837