Wasp nest
Wasp nest

Currently not on view

Wasp nest,

1885–1910

Unknown photographer
2012-32

Information

Title
Wasp nest
Dates

1885–1910

Maker
Unknown photographer
Medium

Gelatin silver chloride print

Dimensions

image: 9.6 x 11.6 cm. (3 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.)
sheet: 10.2 x 12.7 cm. (4 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, bequest of John W. H. Simpson, Class of 1966, in memory of Wellington Hope Simpson, Class of 1931

Object Number
2012-32
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, scientific photography, photographs, collodion prints
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
branches, bees

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