Mary Agnes Chase Collecting Plants, Brazil

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

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate for women to conduct such work. Chase joined the Department of Agriculture in 1903 as a botanical illustrator and eventually became Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology, 1907; Assistant Botanist, 1923; and Associate Botanist, 1925. In 1935, became Principal Botanist in charge of Systematic Agrostology and Custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.
Summary: Mary Agnes Chase, Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, collecting plants in Brazil in 1929. Chase specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America. In this picture, Chase is on horseback in front of a wood hut.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Folder 1
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: 2w x 3h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

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