Hotel Washington in Colón, Panama, 1923-1924
ID: SIA2009-2917 and Hitchcock #1100
Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
Form/Genre: Panama
Date: 1923-1924
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2
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- A rear view of the Hotel Washington in Colón, Panama. There is a statue in the courtyard of the hotel.
- The image was taken by Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Smithsonian's United States National Herbarium while on a biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924. Smithsonian staff members were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.
Subject
- Panama Canal Zone
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Washington Hotel
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- The negative number #1100 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
- For other view of Washington Hotel and surrounding area, see Negs. SIA2009-2918, SIA2010-0715, SIA2010-0716, SIA2010-0717, and SIA2010-0718.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1923-1924
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Hotels
- Scientific expeditions
- Landscapes
- Field Stations
- Architecture
- Natural History
- Plants
- Statues
- Tropical Biology
- Natural history
- Botany
- Buildings--Panama
Place
- Panama
- Colón (Panama)
Form/Genre
- Panama
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
SIA2009-2917 and Hitchcock #1100
Physical description
Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 5.3w x 3.4h ; Type of Image: Exterior ; Medium: Photographic print