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Summary

View of the fascade of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama. Many scientists at the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama City, Panama, had close ties with scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Graham Bell Fairchild worked at Gorgas as an entomologist from 1938 to 1971 and served as Assistant Director from 1958 to 1971. At Gorgas, his research focused on the taxonomy of medically important insects, especially Tabanidae and Psychodidae.

Subject

Gorgas Memorial Laboratory

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of Graham Bell Fairchild Interview by Joel B. Hagen, June 7, 1989, in Smithsonian Institution Archives. Photograph is from the book, "El Laboratorio Conmemorativo Gorgas, Su historia y su labor," Panama: Litho--Impresora Panama, 1975.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9559, Box 1, Graham Bell Fairchild Oral History Interview

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1970s

Restrictions & Rights

Litho-Impresora Panama

Topic

  • Panama City (Panama)
  • Fairchild, Graham Bell
  • Architecture
  • Laboratories
  • Research institutes
  • Research

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Architecture

ID Number

92-12931

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 6h; Type of Image: Architectural; Medium: Photographic print

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