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Title: Colombian Expedition
Description: Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Copy negative available. Burros packed with their boxed orchids ready to set out from a native Colombian village for a river port, from which the flowers were shipped to St. Louis.

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Image of Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Copy negative available. Burros packed with their boxed orchids ready to set out from a native Colombian village for a river port, from which the flowers were shipped to St. Louis.
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TitleColombian Expedition
Creator
Subject Colombia
Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-
Pring, George H. (George Harry), 1885-1974
Research (Missouri Botanical Garden)

RelationPHO
DescriptionScene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Copy negative available. Burros packed with their boxed orchids ready to set out from a native Colombian village for a river port, from which the flowers were shipped to St. Louis.
PublisherMissouri Botanical Garden
ContributorMissouri Botanical Garden
Date of originalc.1923
Date scannedc.1923
TypeImage
FormatTIF
IdentifierPHO 2000-0398
SourceBlack & white print and negative
Language
Coverage
Rightshttp://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/copyright.asp
Width of original10 in.
Height of original8 in.
Condition of originalgood

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