Object Details
- Author
- Pittier, Henri
- 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
- 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.
- Summary
- A view of the southernmost peak of the Chiriqui Volcano, Panama.
- 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. 22, figure 24
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- circa 1910-1911
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0011 or 97-61
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 4.16w x 3.0h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Panama
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Surveying
- Field Work
- Chiriqui Volcano, Panama
- Volcanoes
- Scientific expeditions
- Natural history
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8008
