Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 3h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exterior
Place:
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.
The negative number #1084a is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album. For other views of Santo Tomás Hospital see Negs. SUA2910-0710, SIA2010-0711 and SIA2010-0712.
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
Summary:
Some of the buildings of the new Santo Tomás Hospital located in Panama City, Panama. Smithsonian scientists visited Panama after a field station was created on Barro Colorado Island, now the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in the Panama Canal watershed.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118 and Record Unit 229, Box 14
