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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Aerial; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Aerial
Place:
Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
Panama
Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
Gatun Lake (Panama)
Date:
c. 1950
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
Aerial view of the Barro Colorado Island laboratory of the Canal Zone Biological Area located on Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal watershed in Panama. The CZBA was made part of the Smithsonian in 1946 and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. This view shows the dock and facilities from Gatun Lake.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 134, Box 12, Folder: 6