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Item Information     Who else has...     Hitchcock, A. S.     Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)     Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924     Field Stations     Tropical Biology     Islands     Barro Colorado Island (Panama)     Natural history     Botany     Gatun Lake (Panama)     Panama     Photographic print     Landscape

Barro Colorado Island -- Submerged Forest   Catalog:  Historic Images of the Smithsonian Title:  Barro Colorado Island -- Submerged Forest Date:  1923-1924 Author/Creator:  Hitchcock, A. S. 1865-1935 Contained In:  Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 229, Box 19, Folder 2 Summary:  View of Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone. The image shows a submerged forest surrounding the island. Barro Colorado Island had been a mountaintop but became an island when Gatun Lake was created as the Panama Canal watershed. Tree stumps are still visible around the island today. Barro Colorado Island is now part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The image was taken by Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Smithsonian's United States National Herbarium while on the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924. Smithsonian staff members 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, in order to investigate the flora and fauna of tropical America. Notes:  The negative number #1104 is Hitchcock's negative number. The original photograph is located in Hitchcock's travel album. Access:  United States Department of Agriculture Physical_Description:  Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 3h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print Negative Number:  SIA2009-2921 and Hitchcock 1104 Ordering Information:  For permission to reproduce or publish, contact osiaref@si.edu or call 202-633-5870. To order reproductions, call 202-633-1933 or contact photos@si.edu. Digital Reference:  Digital Copies:  SIA2009-2921.tif, 1200 dpi Subject:  Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1923-1924 Field Stations Tropical Biology Islands -- Panama Barro Colorado Island (Panama) Natural history -- Panama Botany Gatun Lake (Panama) Panama Form/Genre:  Photographic print Landscape Contact Information:  Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu Copy/Holding information Catalog   Historic Images of the Smithsonian Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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