Object Details
- Author
- Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Image contained in photo album prepared by Alexander Wetmore of his trip to Panama. Wetmore Neg. #3505
- Parita was founded in 1556 as Santa Elena and was later renamed. The town church, Iglesia Santo Domingo de Guzmán, was built a century later. It's a simple but attractive church filled with ornately carved woodwork.
- Summary
- Image is of a three hundred year old church in Parita, Herrera, Panama. The steeple is inlaid with pearl shells. Taken by Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, during an ornithological field trip to Panama.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Alexander Wetmore Papers Record Unit 7006, Box 176, Folder: Album Panama 1948
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- March 7, 1948
- Standard number
- SIA2008-6161
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Architecture
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.5w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Architecture; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Panama
- Herrera (Panama : Province)
- Parita River Valley (Panama)
- Panama, Herrera, Parita
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Church architecture
- Church buildings
- Field trips
- Scientific expeditions
- Natural history
- Decorative arts
- Shells
- Plazas
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11907
