Panama Bay Viewed from Santo Tomás Hospital

Summary

Panama Bay viewed from in front of the Santo Tomás Hospital.

Subject

• 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 #1088a is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album. For views of Santo Tomás Hospital, see Negs. SIA2010-0708, SUA2910-0710, and SIA2010-0711.
• 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 229, 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

• Architecture
• Bays
• Buildings--Panama

Place

• Panama, Bay of (Panama)
• Panama

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exterior

ID Number

SIA2010-0712 or Hitchcock 1088a

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white ; Size: 6.25w x 4.25h; Type of Image: Landscape ; Medium: Photographic print

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