Santo Tomás Hospital from Gorgas Memorial Site
ID: SIA2010-0710 or Hichcock #1086a
Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1923-1924
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
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In Panama City, Panama, the Santo Tomás Hospital buildings, as viewed from the Gorgas Memorial Institute site, are under construction.
Subject
- Santo Tomás Hospital
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- Scientists are on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian staff 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, now known as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.
- The negative number #1086a is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album. For other views of Santo Tomás Hospital see Negs. SIA2010-0708, SIA2010-0711 and SIA2010-0712.
- Albert S. Hitchcock was a botanist with the United States Agriculture Department's Bureau of Plant Industry and Honorary Curator of Grasses at the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
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
- Panama City (Panama)
- Hospitals
- Buildings, Construction
- Hospitals--Panama
Place
Panama
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Exterior
ID Number
SIA2010-0710 or Hichcock #1086a
Physical description
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and white; Size: 6.25w x 4.25h ; Type of Image: Exterior ; Medium: Photographic print