Base of Field Operations, Cana, Panama
ID: SIA2010-0016 or 96-4635
Creator: Goldman, Edward Alphonso
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1912
Citation: "Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1912, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 60, No. 30, p. 63, figure 68
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Cana, eastern Panama, headquarters of the Darien Gold Mining Company. In 1912, these buildings were used as the base of field operations in the Pirri mountains for the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone.
Subject
- United States Dept. of Agriculture Bureau of Biological Survey
- Panama Canal Zone
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1910-1912
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
From 1910 to 1912, the Smithsonian participated in the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, field work designed to document the natural history of the Canal Zone prior to construction of the Panama Canal. Mr. Edward Alphonso Goldman from the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture was a member of the field-party and took this picture.
Contained within
"Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1912, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 60, No. 30, p. 63, figure 68
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1912
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Mountains
- Scientific expeditions
- Landscapes
- Natural History
- Darien Gold Mining Co
- Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1912
- Pirri Mountains
- Field Work
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Flora and fauna
- Surveying
- Tropical Biology
- Mountains--Panama
- Natural history
Place
Panama
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
SIA2010-0016 or 96-4635
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 3.63w x 4.75h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print