Juan Mina Station
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Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
Form/Genre: Landscape
Date: December 15, 1955
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 182, Folder: 3
Building is at Juan Mina Station, a small settlement and a former station of the Panama Railroad, located 12.64 miles from Colon, Panama, near the mouth of the Chilibre River on the Chagres River. Now inundated by Gatun Lake. Juan Mina was used as a mosquito collecting field station for entomologists of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory for many years.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The image was taken by Sixth Smithsonian Secretary (1944-1952) and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Panama.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 182, Folder: 3
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 15, 1955
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SIA2011-2251 or Wetmore #5956
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 4.75w 4.5h; Type of Image: Landscape ; Medium: Photographicprint