Object Details
- Author
- Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
- Subject
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Scientists are on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, now known as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America.
- Albert S. Hitchcock was a botanist with the United States Agriculture Department's Bureau of Plant Industry and Honorary Curator of Grasses at the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian. The negative number #1097 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
- For a view of taken at Port au Prince see Neg. SIA2010-0721.
- Summary
- A view of Port au Prince, Hayti (Haiti) seen from the ship "Panama" at dock. Another ship is in the water in front of Port au Prince.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 29, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-111829, Box 19, Folder: Volume 2 nos. 782-1118
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1923-1924
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0722 or Hitchcock # 1098
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and white ; Size: 5.38w x 3.13h ; Type of Image: Landscape ; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Caribbean Sea
- Haiti
- Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Boats and boating
- Ships
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13622
