Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.5w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Architecture; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Architecture
Place:
Panama
Herrera (Panama : Province)
Parita River Valley (Panama)
Panama, Herrera, Parita
Date:
March 7, 1948
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Image contained in photo album prepared by Alexander Wetmore of his trip to Panama. Wetmore Neg. #3505
Parita was founded in 1556 as Santa Elena and was later renamed. The town church, Iglesia Santo Domingo de Guzmán, was built a century later. It's a simple but attractive church filled with ornately carved woodwork.
Summary:
Image is of a three hundred year old church in Parita, Herrera, Panama. The steeple is inlaid with pearl shells. Taken by Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, during an ornithological field trip to Panama.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Alexander Wetmore Papers Record Unit 7006, Box 176, Folder: Album Panama 1948
