Small Boats in Harbor at Port au Prince, Hayti (Haiti)
ID: SIA2010-0721 or Hitchcock # 1097
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. 782-111829, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
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People are in small rowboats in the water at Port au Prince, Hayti (Haiti) around the ship "Panama" in harbor.
Subject
- Panama Canal Zone
- 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 #1097 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
- For a view of Port au Prince see Neg. SIA2010-0722.
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
1923-1924
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Boats and boating
- Landscapes
Place
- Haiti
- Panama
- Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
- Caribbean Sea
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Group, candid
ID Number
SIA2010-0721 or Hitchcock # 1097
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 3.13w x 5.38h; Type of Image: Landscape; Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print