Statue of Columbus in Front of Washington Hotel

ID: SIA2010-0716 or Hitchcock #1092

Creator: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1923-1924

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-111829, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118

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Summary

A statue of Christopher Columbus stands outside of the Washington Hotel in Colón, Panama. The statue cast, in bronze, depicts Columbus with his extended right hand pointing toward the ocean. His other hand is around the waist of a young and beautiful Indian woman, who symbolizes America. The statue, by the Italian sculptor, Vincenzo Vela was presented by the Eugenia de Montijo, Empress of France to the people of Panama, then part of the Republic of Colombia, in 1867.

Subject

  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Washington Hotel
  • Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)

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.
  • 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 #1092 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, SIA2010-0715, SIA2010-0717, SIA2010-0718. SIA2010-0719 and SIA2010-0720.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, 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

Statues

Place

  • Panama
  • Colón (Panama)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exterior
  • Statue

ID Number

SIA2010-0716 or Hitchcock #1092

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 3.125w x 5.37h; Type of Image: Statue; Exterior; Medium: Photograph print

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