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How the Panama canal works by using a system of channels, locks, and lakes.
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The Catedral Metropolitana in Casco Antiguo is one of the largest churches in central america and was built in 1796. The entrance was built using the stones from the ruins of Panama Viejo. .
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From the early 1900s to about 1950, the Kennedy and Fitzgerald families documented their lives on nitrate photographic film. They were part of a new generation of amateur photographers utilizing a new medium that enabled them to produce numerous snapshots of everyday life – of friends and relatives, trips, holidays, and other celebratory occasions. When nitrate film became commercially available in the late 1880s, it made possible technical advancements in amateur roll film for smaller, more mobile cameras, ushering in the practice of family photography.
More than a century later, the surviving nitrate negatives from the Kennedy Family Collection have been digitized due in part to the inherently fragile and unstable nature of the medium, but also to provide greater access and ensure future use while the physical objects remain safely preserved in their original format and condition.
The JFK Library is pleased to announce the completion of an 18-month grant project to catalog and provide online access to these newly digitized materials. Archivists created robust descriptions and metadata records for all of the nitrate negatives in the collection so that users can browse, search, and discover these historic photographs. Over 1,700 photographs are now available on the Library’s website. The nitrates represent a subset of photographic materials in a collection that provides access to the more personal, private moments of this prominent family not found in other historical sources.
These photos – the third in a series of posts to highlight images from this cataloging project - feature former Mayor of Boston, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, pictured alone or with his wife, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, and their children and grandchildren. The following images offer glimpses into Honey Fitz’s personality, his family and public service life, and the keen interest he held for his Irish heritage.
To browse all of the Kennedy Family Collection photos in which John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald appears, visit the Digital Archives.
Photographs © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
KFC1429N. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald and Rose Fitzgerald Aboard R.M.S. Franconia, ca. June 27-August 16, 1911
KFC887N. John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald with Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., at Nantasket Beach, ca. 1916
KFC803N. John F. Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Fitzgerald in Palm Beach, Florida, ca. 1915-1916
KFC807N. John F. Fitzgerald, Mary Josephine Fitzgerald, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, ca. 1915-1916
KFC232N. Kennedy Family Children with Their Grandparents, John F. Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Fitzgerald, in Cohasset, ca. 1922
KFC211N. Kennedy Family Children with Their Grandparents, John F. Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Fitzgerald, in Cohasset, ca. 1922
KFC1422N. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald with John Hays Hammond, Sr., Aboard R.M.S. Franconia,ca. June 27-August 16, 1911
KFC1559N. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald and Boston Chamber of Commerce Delegates at Residence of Sir Thomas Lipton in England, ca. July 5, 1911
KFC1481N. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald with Rose Fitzgerald, Agnes Fitzgerald, and Hugh Nawn Aboard Sir Thomas Lipton’s Yacht in England, ca. August 7, 1911
KFC240N. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald at Gatun Locks in Panama, ca. May 1-4, 1913
KFC1442N. John F. Fitzgerald at Blarney Castle in County Cork, Ireland, ca. August 8, 1908
KFC1519N. John F. Fitzgerald and Agnes Fitzgerald Visit Treaty Stone of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland, ca. August 5, 1908
KFC1447N. John F. Fitzgerald Swims in Ireland, ca. August 1908-August 1909
KFC1430N. John F. Fitzgerald with Donkey in Ireland, ca. August 1908-August 1909
Read more about the project on the Library’s Blog. Photographs © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Beautiful San Blas islands in Panama
The San Blas Islands of Panama are an archipelago comprising approximately 365 islands and cays, of which only 49 are inhabited. San Blas and its surrounding area is a haven for ecotourists because of its near pollution-free environment. The area is also popular for sailing, as it is known for its beauty and lack of hurricanes.
See more at wanderingtrader.com
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Osa pulchra blooming at the Huntington Botanical Garden, San Marino, California.
Osa pulchra is the holy grail of showy tropical flowering plants and most of us have never heard of it. This spectacular member of the Rubiaceae is exceptionally rare, both in the wild and in cultivation. It is quite unusual that a flowering plant of such exuberant beauty can go virtually unknown for so long in cultivation. Its close relatives of better fame Portlandia grandifloraandCubanola dominguensis, are familiar to some horticulturists in tropical climates.
While in bloom this magnificent shrub may superficially resemble a coffee tree with white Brugmansia flowers hung from its branches, but surpasses both in elegance. The pendent trumpet-shaped fragrant white flowers are thick in texture and 22 cm in length.
I have been working with a good friend, Dylan Hannon, Curator of the Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science and Tropical Collections at the Huntington Botanical Gardens (San Marino, California) for the past 4 years to help insure this species’ survival ex situ within Hawai'i and in a few other suitable tropical countries.
Until 2007, this endangered species was only known from two disjunct populations in the south of Costa Rica, one on the Atlantic side and the other on the Pacific side in wet lowland rainforest. Less than 30 individuals exist between these two populations in which natural reproduction is very poor. In addition, because of the location and nature of both colonies, botanists have been hesitant to accept that these plants weren’t planted by humans at some point due to their proximity to human dwellings¹. Five years ago Osa pulchra was found for the first time in Bocas del Toro, Panama. University of Panama biologists Reyes Carranza and Fermín Hernández found this species during an environmental impact survey² . This exciting discovery may be the first record of a wild population.
Nearly all plants in cultivation outside Mesoamerica trace back to seven seedlings resulting from a pod collected in 1996 on a Missouri Botanical Garden expedition to the Osa Peninsula. About 100 F1 seedlings were raised at the Huntington and distributed to select conservatories in mainland USA in 2006¹. Notably showy specimens can currently be seen at the New York Botanical Garden, the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Huntington.
Propagation of Osa pulchra is not for the impatient horticulturist. Growing from seed is the preferred method. Asexual propagation is possible but it exacts a sacrifice of the terminal stem. As with Portlandia,Osa have exhibited stubborn apical dominance, sometimes referred to as the ‘conifer effect’. Hand pollination must be carried out between two different clones because individual flowers are infertile. Gestation will take up to 11 months, upon which seeds must be sown with haste due to their limited window of viability.
¹ Hannon, DP. (2007). Osa pulchra: fragrant trumpet flowers from central america. Tropical Flowering Tree Society Quarterly, (Winter), 9-11.
² Aiello, A, Correa, M, Galdames, C, Alvarado, M, & Calderon, ML. (2007, August 31). Remarkable new plant record for panama. STRI News, Retrieved from striweb.si.edu/strinews/PDFs/August_31_2007.pdf
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Brought the rake to Panama and found this beach right in Panama City!
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Can you see where the Fiery-billed Araçari (Pteroglossus frantzii) gets its name?
This bright-beaked bird lives in humid forests in Costa Rica and Panama, where it snacks on fruits, insects, and eggs. It might even eat the juveniles and eggs of pigeons or woodpeckers while also stealing the nest for itself.
Photo: Reinaldo Aguilar, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr
#AnimalFacts #birds #aracari #CostaRica #Panama #DYK #AnimalKingdom
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