Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935 Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Search this
Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924 Search this
Physical description:
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 6.25w x 4.25h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Landscape
Place:
Panama
Panama, Bay of (Panama)
Date:
c. 1923-1924
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Scientists are on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, now known as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.
Albert S. Hitchcock was a botanist with the United States Agriculture Department's Bureau of Plant Industry and Honorary Curator of Grasses at the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian. The negative number #1089 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
Summary:
View of the undeveloped ground for the proposed Marine Biological Laboratory in Panama City, Panama. The bay can be seen in the background.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
