Tropical Forest in the Gatun Lake Area, Panama

ID: SIA2010-0006 or 97-54

Creator: Goldman, Edward Alphonso

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1911

Citation: "Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations Organized or Participated in by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910 and 1911, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 59, No. 11, p. 19, figure 19

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Summary

Part of the tropical forest being flooded in the Gatun Lake area, Panama for the Panama Canal.

Subject

  • United States Dept. of Agriculture Bureau of Biological Survey
  • Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1910-1912
  • Panama Canal Zone

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

This area was entirely submerged when the lake was filled for the Panama Canal. From 1910 to 1912, the Smithsonian participated in the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, field work designed to document the natural history of the Canal Zone prior to construction of the Panama Canal. Mr. Edward Alphonso Goldman from the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture was a member of the field-party and took this picture.

Contained within

"Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations Organized or Participated in by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910 and 1911, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 59, No. 11, p. 19, figure 19

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1911

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Forests and Forestry
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Landscapes
  • Natural History
  • Field Work
  • Panama Canal (Panama)
  • Surveying
  • Explorations Organized or Participated in by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910 and 1911
  • Plants
  • Tropical Biology
  • Tropics
  • Tropical forest
  • Botany
  • Forestry
  • Natural history

Place

  • Panama
  • Gatun Lake (Panama)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Landscape

ID Number

SIA2010-0006 or 97-54

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 3.75w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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