Porto Bello Bay, Panama
ID: SIA2010-0023 and 96-4632
Creator: Busck, August
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. 69, figure 75
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Boats are on Porto Bello Bay and beyond is the excavated mountain where the rock used for the Gatun Dam was secured. From 1910 to 1912, the Smithsonian participated in the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, to document the natural history of the Canal Zone prior to construction of the Panama Canal. August Busck ,of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), was a member of the field party and took this picture.
Subject
- United States Dept. of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology
- Panama Canal Zone
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1910-1912
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
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. 69, figure 75
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
- Boats and boating
- Landscapes
- Bays
- Natural History
- Gatun Dam
- Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1912
- Field Work
- Surveying
- Tropical Biology
- Natural history
- Mountains--Panama
Place
- Panama
- Portobelo (Panama)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
SIA2010-0023 and 96-4632
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print