Rainbow Lands of Central America
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (91 minutes, color silent; 3,288 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel through Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Locales in Panama include the canal and Canal Zone, Panama City, and the interior via the Chagres River. Locales and scenes in Costa Rica include agriculture at Coto Research Station, sawmill in a forest, San Jose, and handicrafts. Locales and scenes in El Salvador include educational efforts including the Santa Cecilia Trade School and new agricultural programs, cooperative stores, handicrafts, and Crater lakes and Izalco volcano. Locales in Guatemala include Guatemala City, a restored Antigua, the Mayan ruin of Tikal, a United Fruit plantation, mountainside farms on the way to Lake Atitlan, and the Chichicastenango market.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Cities and towns ; Archeology sites ; Handicrafts ; Agriculture Costa Rica ; Sawmills ; Agricultural experiment stations ; Vocational education ; Volcanoes ; Marketplaces ; Farms