Mr. Dobbie's Garden in Ecuador, 1923-1924
ID: SIA2009-2924 and Hitchcock 1107
Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1923-1924
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2
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- Image of Mr. Dobbie's garden at Huigra in Ecuador. The caption points out that the tree in the center of the image is a Plumiera (frangipani) tree.
- 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. In addition to collecting in Panama, Hitchcock traveled all over Latin America on this scientific expedition.
Subject
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
The negative number #1107 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
- Scientific expeditions
- Landscapes
- Field Stations
- Plants
- Plumeria
- Tropical Biology
- Botany
- Ecuador
Place
Ecuador
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
SIA2009-2924 and Hitchcock 1107
Physical description
Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 4.8w x 4.0h ; Type of Image: Landscape ; Medium: Photographic print