Album 1 Panama and Coiba Island, 1956

Related Titles

Contained In: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated

Series: SIA RU007006

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1956

Notes

The photograph album documents Alexander Wetmore's travels to Panama in 1956 to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and on Isla Coiba. Photographs are numbered, and captioned with location, description, and date. Subject matter includes structures and images of convicts and non-convicts of a penal colony on Coiba Island; examples of vegetation; examples of terrain (shorelines, beaches, wetlands, pastures, and forests); vessels used for transport; daily activities; images from offshore. Additional locations include the vicinity of El Hato and Rio San Juan.

Subjects

Canal Zone , Coiba, Isla de , Field notes , Ornithology , Panama , Photograph albums , United States National Museum

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.111646