Barro Colorado Island -- Submerged Forest

ID: SIA2009-2921 and Hitchcock 1104

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

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1923-1924

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2

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Summary

  • View of Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone. The image shows a submerged forest surrounding the island. Barro Colorado Island had been a mountaintop but became an island when Gatun Lake was created as the Panama Canal watershed. Tree stumps are still visible around the island today. Barro Colorado Island is now part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
  • The image was taken by Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Smithsonian's United States National Herbarium while on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924. Smithsonian staff members 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, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.

Subject

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

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The negative number #1104 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1923-1924

Restrictions & Rights

United States Department of Agriculture

Topic

  • Landscapes
  • Field Stations
  • Natural History
  • Plants
  • Tropical Biology
  • Islands
  • Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
  • Natural history
  • Botany

Place

  • Panama
  • Gatun Lake (Panama)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Landscape

ID Number

SIA2009-2921 and Hitchcock 1104

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 3h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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