Barro Colorado Island from Gatun Lake
Close
Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: 44157 or MAH-44157
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1950
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 50, Box 33, Folder: Hillside Shots
View of the Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory buildings and dock from Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal, Panama. The tramway to the top of the island is visible; it leads to the main laboratory building. Established in 1924 as a natural history laboratory, it eventually became the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 50, Box 33, Folder: Hillside Shots
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1950
No restrictions
44157 or MAH-44157
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print