Charles Doolittle Walcott Excavating Burgess Shale
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927). Walcott, along with two other men, is shown excavating the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. Walcott is the man with the wide brim hat.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 24, Folder: 3-B
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1915
- Standard number
- SIA2010-3248 and SA-691 and 92-6989
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8.25w x 6.25h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Burgess Shale (B.C.)
- Canada
- Clothing and dress
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Mountains
- Paleontology
- Secretariats
- Scientific expeditions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7914
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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