View from Window of Washington Hotel, Colón, Panama
ID: SIA2010-0715 or 1091
Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
Form/Genre: Panama
Date: c. 1923-1924
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-111829, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
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Photo labeled "Washington hotel, Colon, view from window." Palm trees line the wall of an outside area and buildings are beyond.
Subject
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Panama Canal Zone
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- This image was taken by Albert Spear Hitchcock one of several Smithsonian scientists who were on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone from 1923-1924. 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.
- 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. The negative number #1091 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. SIA2009-2917, SIA2009-2918, SIA2010-0716, SIA2010-0717, SIA2010-0718, SIA2010-0719 and SIA2010-0720.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-111829, 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
c. 1923-1924
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Hotels
- Scientific expeditions
- Landscapes
- Architecture
- Natural History
- Plants
- Palm trees
- Tropical Biology
- Buildings--Panama
- Natural history
- Botany
Place
- Panama
- Colón (Panama)
Form/Genre
- Panama
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
SIA2010-0715 or 1091
Physical description
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and white; Size: 5.25w x 3h; Type of Image: Landscape; Exterior; Medium: Photographic print