Ornithologist Granville P. Ashcraft with specimens collected by a team of U.S.C. scientists during their exploration of the Gulf of Lower California, Los Angeles, February 21, 1940

Title: Ornithologist Granville P. Ashcraft with specimens collected by a team of U.S.C. scientists during their exploration of the Gulf of Lower California, Los Angeles, February 21, 1940
Date Created: February 21, 1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Ornithologist Grenville P. Ashcraft measuring bird specimens brought back by a team of University of Southern California scientists from their exploration of the Gulf of Lower California on U.S.C.’s Velero III cruiser. The expedition was captained by Allan Hancock, president of the U.S.C. board of trustees, and included a team of three zoologists, an ornithologist, a botanist, an ichthyologist, a parasitologist, a scientific artist, a photographer, a collector, and an official observer for the Mexican government. The team brought back several thousands of specimens including birds, fish, mammals, algae, and parasites.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Grenville P. Ashcraft
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Expedition - G. Allen Hancock to Gulf of Lower California; Ashcraft, Grenville P.; Specimens collected - birds, etc. (Feb. 1940)

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Science
Animals
Specimens
Biologists--American--California--Los Angeles
Expeditions & surveys--California
Birds--California
Environment
Names: Ashcraft, Granville P.
University of Southern California
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: 22871
uclamss_1387_22871-02
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002804gk
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