Edward Alphonso Goldman - Mexico, September 19 - November 28, 1896

About the Project

It's easy to map our own ideas onto the past. Reading the records of Smithsonian collecting scientists, you might imagine them traveling with the comforts modern campers and backpackers enjoy—technical clothing, power-inflated air mattresses, waterproofed tents and shoes—but this wasn't the case. Edward Goldman was truly roughing it alongside his mentor, Edward Nelson, and both men sacrificed personal comforts to expand the United States' knowledge of the flora and fauna of North America. Turn the pages of Goldman's journal with your fellow volunpeers, as he deals with torrential rain in Mexico!

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