Party of Scientists on Barro Colorado Island
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Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1923
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Album 2
A party of scientists is taking a lunch break by a shack on Barro Colorado Island. James Zetek is second from the left. Barro Colorado Island had been a mountaintop but became an island when Gatun Lake was created as the Panama Canal watershed. It was set aside as a nature reserve and tropical field station. Barro Colorado Island is now part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The negative number #1602 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Album 2
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1923
United States Department of Agriculture
SIA2010-1167 and Hitchcock #1602
Color: Black and White; Size: 5.5w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print