Barro Colorado Island from Gatun Lake
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1940s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 50, Box 33, Folder: Gatun Lake
Barro Colorado Island, Panama, was created when the Chagras River was dammed to create Gatun Lake as a watershed for the Panama Canal. The picture of the island shows a tree and a tree stump in the water. Barro Colorado Island, which was home to the Canal Zone Biological Area, was renamed in 1964 the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 50, Box 33, Folder: Gatun Lake
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1940s
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Color: Black and White; Size: 7w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print