Boat Landing, Gatun Lake, Panama

ID: SIA2010-0007 or 97-63

Creator: Goldman, Edward Alphonso

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1910-1911

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. 20, figure 20

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Summary

Boat landing on the shore of Gatun Lake, Canal Zone, Panama. Men are in the boats and on the shore.

Subject

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

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

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. 20, figure 20

Contact information

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

Date

1910-1911

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Boats and boating
  • Natural History
  • Field Work
  • Panama Canal (Panama)
  • Surveying
  • Tropical Biology
  • Natural history

Place

  • Panama
  • Gatun Lake (Panama)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2010-0007 or 97-63

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 4.16w x 3.25h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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