Panama Bay, 1923-1924

Summary

• A view of Panama Bay in Colón, Panama. The image was taken from the front of the Hotel Washington. Palm trees can be seen lining the shoreline.
• 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 the 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 #1101 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.

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
• Tropical Biology
• Palm trees
• Natural history
• Botany
• Buildings--Panama

Place

• Panama, Bay of (Panama)
• Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
• Panama
• Colón (Panama)

Form/Genre

• Panama
• Photographic print
• Landscape

ID Number

SIA2009-2918 and Hitchcock 1101

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 5.9w x 3.6h ; Type of Image: Landscape ; Medium: Photographic print

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