Party of Scientists on Barro Colorado Island
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Object Details
- Author
- Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935
- Subject
- Zetek, James b. 1886
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Panama Canal Zone
- Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- The negative number #1602 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album.
- Summary
- A party of scientists is taking a lunch break by a shack on Barro Colorado Island. James Zetek is second from the left. Barro Colorado Island had been a mountaintop but became an island when Gatun Lake was created as the Panama Canal watershed. It was set aside as a nature reserve and tropical field station. Barro Colorado Island is now part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 20, Album 2
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1923
- Standard number
- SIA2010-1167 and Hitchcock #1602
- Restrictions & Rights
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 5.5w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Panama
- Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Field Stations
- Tropical Biology
- Islands
- Scientific expeditions
- Naturalists
- Natural history
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7148
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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