Scrapbook and photograph albums documenting the National Geographic Society–Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937

Scrapbook and photograph albums documenting the National Geographic Society–Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937
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on March 15, 2023
Scrapbook and photograph albums documenting the National Geographic Society–Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937

Scrapbook and photograph albums documenting the National Geographic Society–Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937

In 1937, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society partnered to send a collecting expedition to the Dutch East Indies (today, Indonesia) to enrich the collections of the National Zoological Park, led by Zoo director William M. Mann. Lucile Quarry Mann, the director’s wife, accompanied the expedition as she often did on similar collecting trips, and kept detailed notes on their travels, which informed her publications. This scrapbook and accompanying photo albums record many of their experiences during this 1937 expedition, documenting stops in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Egypt on either side of their work in Indonesia. Perhaps most charming are images of Lucile Mann bottle-feeding tiger cubs, along with photographs of other young animals, including primates and a pangolin—which recall the many Zoo younglings she cared for in the Manns’ DC home when the animals' well-being required her aid.

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