Cavanillesia-tree, Panama

ID: SIA2010-0012 or 97-56

Creator: Pittier, Henri

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: circa 1910-1911

Citation: "Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations Organized or Participated in by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910 and 1911, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 59, No. 11, p. 23, figure 25

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Summary

A cavanillesia-tree, a striking feature of the Panama Canal Zone forest.

Subject

  • United States Dept. of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry
  • 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. Professor Henri Pittier from the Bureau of Plant Industry, 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 Organized or Participated in by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910 and 1911, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 59, No. 11, p. 23, figure 25

Contact information

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

Date

circa 1910-1911

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Trees
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Landscapes
  • Cavanillesia Tree, Panama
  • Natural History
  • Field Work
  • Panama Canal (Panama)
  • Surveying
  • Plants
  • Botany
  • Natural history

Place

Panama

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Landscape

ID Number

SIA2010-0012 or 97-56

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 4.16w x 5.5h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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