Title
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
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