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1965023817Comision Del Atlas De Panama Comite Ejecutivo 1965. Book. Fair. Cloth. Primera Edición. 191 pages. Giant oblong format hardcover. Texts in Spanish. Water stain to the inside front gutter with significant wear and some warping to the covers. The previous owner's name is embossed in gold on the front cover. There are no internal markings. It is presumed that this was initially published in paperback wrappers and was bound into its current state by the previous owner. While the boards of the binding are not in great shape they have nicely preserved the original publication that consists of a good number of maps of Panama along with informational texts about the country. Comision Del Atlas De Panama, Comite Ejecutivo Hardcover
1994271689PN. New. 1994. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1991D3S0035205Panama Canal Commission 1991-01-01. Pamphlet. Good. 1982 EDITION! 6 of 11 pages of pencil underlining. First page has minor sticker residue. Cover shows wear with bumped/curling corners. Binding is tight. Panama Canal Commission unknown
197729315New Haven:: Simon & Schuster 1977. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats tremendous medical accomplishments political power plays heroic successes and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid lively exposition McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Simon & Schuster, unknown
194160340Panama City Panama & New York NY: The Panama National Tourist Commission 1941. Four pieces. 1st - 4to. 8 x 9 in. 80 pp. Photo illustrations maps text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers center fold crease as issued minor tidemark at center in lower part of brochure mostly in last half still G- copy; 2nd - 8vo. 4 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. in leporello accordion-style format printed in green & black photo illustrations map minor creasing VG; 3rd - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.25 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in green & black which unfolds to 12 x 17.25 in. broadside on verso photo illustrated NF; 4th - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.5 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black illustrated which unfolds to 17.5 x 12.8 in. broadside on verso self-printed softcovers NF. First editions of this scarce series of well-illustrated travel brochures to Panama and the Panama Canal Zone on the eve of World War II. The photos depict Panama folk dances churches and shopping districts as well as indigenous Panamanian peoples jewelry pottery woven textiles and more available for sale. The Panama National Tourist Commission, paperback
1993265010PN. New. 1993. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
191463524Boston: The Page Company 1914. Thick 8vo. xv 1 559 1 pp. Frontisp. colour map of the Republic of Panama & profile of the Canal 1 large folding map of Central America numerous plates engravings maps. Dark green pictorial publisher’s cloth white blue gilt & red illustration front cover gilt lettering & ruling t.e.g. minor light uniform interior toning occasional edgewear rubbing to fore-edges slight scuffing still VG bright copy. Second edition of this excellent history of Central America and promotion of Panama upon the completion of the Canal and in conjunction with Page Company incorporating this title into the “See America First†series issued for over two decades. Not only has author presented a concise history of the Spanish exploration and exploitation of the West Indies and Central America but also included specific sections on privateers such as Sir Francis Drake as well as pirates in the Caribbean including the account of the sack of Old Panama City by Henry Morgan. The Page Company, hardcover
1904375175Panama 1904. 9 vols. Fine. 9 vols. Through the 1903 separation of Panama from Colombia and the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty the United States had secured rights to build a canal in the Isthmus of Panama. Legislation authorizing construction did not specify which government department would be responsible and Roosevelt designated the Department of War. Taft journeyed to Panama in 1904 viewing the canal site and meeting with Panamanian officials. The Isthmian Canal Commission had trouble keeping a chief engineer and when in February 1907 John F. Stevens submitted his resignation Taft recommended an army engineer George W. Goethals. Under Goethals the project moved ahead smoothl. unknown
1966PARIS 44GNAOUA 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION 1966 Panama Rose was the pen name of Rosalind Schwartz whose partner at the time was poet underground filmmaker publisher and photographer Ira Cohen. From around 1961-1965 they lived together in Tangier Morocco where they spent time with other ex-pats Paul Bowles William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin and worked on music and publications. Schwartz wrote The Hashish Cookbook at the suggestion of Brion Gysin who years earlier had given Alice B. Toklas the hashish fudge recipe that appears in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Often The Hashish Cookbook is wrongly attributed as being written by Cohen himself though he did publish it when he returned to New York in 1966. GNAOUA Paperback
192124190various: various. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1921-1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library General Assembly Library New Zealand. Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. ; Bound volume of 18 tracts on the pacific. Spine title: "PACIFIC PAMPHLETS. ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL. No. 4." Typed list of contents bound in at front. Page dimensions: 238 x 148mm. Contents: 1."Department of Overseas Trade. Report on the Economic and Commercial Situation of Australia to June 1923" by S. W. B. McGregor. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1923. 83 1 blank pages. Original printed wrappers bound in.2."Australia : A Survey of Its Resources and Foreign Trade" by Emmett A. Chapman. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 34 pages.3."Trading Under the Laws of Australia" by Guerra Everett. Trade Information Bulletin No. 412. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Washington: 73 1 pages. 4."Australia's Trade in the Future" by Harry S. Gullett. Extracted article. 59-64 pages.5."Department of Overseas Trade. Report on the Economic Financial and Commercial Conditions of the Republic of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone to September 1924" by R. Keith Jopson. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1924. 36 pages. Original printed wrappers bound in.6."Iron and Steel Trade of the Pacific Area" by Marshall Teel Jones. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 25 5 blank pages. 7."Furniture Markets of the Far East" by Kenneth M. Hill. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 33 1 blank pages.8."United States Department of Commerce : Supplement to Commerce Reports Published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce : February 1925: Trade Information Bulletin No. 317 : Foreign Markets for Confectionary : II. Far East". Washington: Government Printer 1925. 16 2 blank pages.9."Protesting Drafts in Japan Dutch East Indies Samoa and Tahiti : Compiled in the Division of Laws". United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 15 1 2 blank pages.10. "Report of the Special Mission on Investigation to the Philippine Islands to the Secretary of War". Washington: Government Printing Office 1921. 58 2 blank pages 1 colour folding map. Original printed wrappers bound in.11. "Department of Overseas Trade : Report on the Commercial and Economic Situation of the Philippine Islands to June 1925" by Thomas Harrington. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1926. 26 pages. Original printed wrappers bound in.12. "Resources and Trade of the Philippine Islands" by M. A. Pugh. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 40 2 blank pages. 13. "Philippine Trade Financing and Exchange" by Edwin B. George. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 16 2 blank pages.14. "Department of Overseas Trade. Report on the Economic Situation of the Netherlands East Indies to June 1923" by H. A. N. Bluett. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1923. 112 pages. Original printed wrappers bound in.15. "Department of Overseas Trade. Report on the Economic Situation of the Netherland East Indies to July 1924" by H. A. N. Bluett. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1924. 80 pages. Original printed wrappers bound in.16. "Cotton-Goods Market in the Netherlands East Indies" by Edwin B. George. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 25 1 blank pages.17. "Machinery Markets of Netherlands East Indies" by J. F. Van Wickel. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 43 3 blank pages.18. "Trading with Malaysia" by F. R. Eldridge. United States Department of Commerce - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 21 1 blank pages. . [various] hardcover
192531179PRIMERA EDICION.- Madrid: Ed. Marineda Libr. de Alejandro Pueyo 1925.- 206 p. 1 h.; 8º 19 cm.; Intonso con todas sus barbas; Rústica Ed. pintada a todo color por "Quesada Hoyo".- Importante autor panameño que nos narra en este libro su viaje desde Cuba rumbo a El Havre. Es libro ameno plagado de interesantes reflexiones algunas de ellas referentes a la MASONERIA con la que simpatiza sin ningún disimulo. Incluye el libro un verso traducido del francés que según el autor es una ORACION DEL MASON. RARO. LITERATURA ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS FILOSOFÃA Y PENSAMIENTO IBEROAMERICANO EN GENERAL Libro en español Ed. Marineda paperback
19413129The Panama Canal Press Mount Hope Canal Zone 1941 Green wraps stapled printed front cover 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches unpaginated 8 pp. 5 b/w photo illustrations. Good plus. Rare indeed. No OCLC library holdings. "Interns for The Panama Canal service are employed in Gorgas Hospital. They are required to be single men between the ages of 22 and 30 years American citizens and graduates of approved medical schools in the class of the current year. Married applicants will not be considered for employment as interns. Appointments are for a period of 12 months beginning in June or July of each year. Twelve months of service is required after arrival on the Isthmus. Interns are appointed without Civil Service examination and acquire no classified standing. They receive a compensation of $115 a month from which deductions for services furnished are made as follows: Subsistence $30 a month quarters $10 a month. Pay begins on date of sailing from the United States. Free steamship transportation is provided to and from the United States but appointees must pay their own railroad transportation to the port of sailing. Interns are given the status of employees of The Panama Canal with the leave privileges thereof 54 days a year except that leave other than to cover sickness or emergency is not granted until the expiration of their services. A day of absence for each day of Sunday or holiday work is allowed when the professional work permits. Interns are subsisted at the hospital and live in hospital quarters. Laundered uniforms for wear on duty are furnished by the hospital as needed." 3214018. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. The Panama Canal Press, Mount Hope, Canal Zone paperback
196646055N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. Near Fine. N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 620pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece and illus. throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper margins else Fine. Gnaoua Press unknown
1912201831912. Panama Canal Early Photography Two large albumen photographs of the construction of the Panama Canal 1912. Photographs are pasted down to grey cardstock with captions and articles describing the imagery below. Photos measure 11" x 14". The building of the Panama Canal was not met with ease as the former French owned project was abandoned due to lack of investment and a high worker mortality rate and the grappling of territory between Panama Columbia and the United States. In 1903 Panama gained it's independence and as the United States recognized this Roosevelt used buying power to his advantage to funnel millions of dollars towards Panama and the funding of this project. These two photographs are early large scale displays of the massive amounts of land and infrastructure that went into this long awaited project. One photograph shows the Culebra Cut in June 1912. The article pasted to the front states that "To remove the 105000000 cubicyards of earth from the backbone of the Americas required about 6000000 pounds of high-grade dynamite each year to break up the material.in which time some 19000000 pounds were exploded in Culebra Cut only eight men were killed." The second photograph dated January 1912 shows the Miraflores Upper Locks with a diagram of what the final construction would look like. The photograph shows a partially built sill multiple tracks for hauling material heavy duty cranes and other industrial equipment. Thousands of local men were hired for this dangerous and underpaying job over the course of a decade. These Caribbean workers endured poor working conditions low wages and unbearable temperatures for a government that was not theirs over 5000 becoming casualties. By it's opening ceremony in 1914 The Panama Canal was the most expensive project in US history estimated at $350000000. These early photographs show only a portion of what went into this costly construction. Minor wear to edges of board upper right corner of one is chipped. Images are crisp and clear overall very good condition. unknown
1956150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr.<br /> <br /> Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film.<br /> <br /> Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. <br /> <br /> Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown
1942221221942. Latin America Panama Life in both urban Panama and the rural town of Chepo during the 1940s photo archive with most prints dated to 1942. Archive of 17 items 16 silver gelatin photographs measure 3.5" x 2.5" with one panoramic photo mounted on cardstock measuring 2.25" x 11". This archive offers a visually rich record of everyday life across class racial and geographic boundaries. Multiple photographs feature captions in ink on the verso providing locations and dates. The archive is split between two geographic zones: the modest rural community of Chepo and a more metropolitan center-likely Panama City-showing large buildings post offices police headquarters cantinas and well-trafficked intersections. In one striking rural image captioned "Dorein sic Indian Mother and Child" a white American tourist likely one of the photo owners stands beside an Indigenous woman and her child on a stilted wooden platform. The Darien likely of either the Emberá Wounaan or Kuna tribes woman wears only a sarong while a toddler stands nude at her feet highlighting the tension between Western spectatorship and traditional village life. In another photo local children gather in front of a wooden building marked "Cantina La Favorita de Chepo" while boys play barefoot on an unpaved road. Women in housedresses stand along porches and Indigenous women in linen skirts and little else are seen emerging from thatched or wooded homes. An image marked "Cantina at Chepo - 3-29-42" shows two white men and a white woman smiling at a table in a roofed structure made of rough wooden beams likely serving as a makeshift bar during their travels. The photos from urban Panama offer a sharp contrast. A modern cantilevered government building identified as the "Police Headquarters" is captioned en verso "Building now has many bullet holes on the sides" possibly a reference to political unrest or postwar violence. Another image shows a broad intersection labeled "6th & 8th St" filled with pedestrians in Western clothing including men in white suits and hats women in modern dresses and a cyclist passing beneath a neocolonial archway connecting civic buildings. Other rural images feature homes elevated on stilts a forested footpath with American visitors walking alongside locals and a panoramic view mounted to board showing a wide aerial view of one of the region's larger towns. Minor wear to edges. Overall very good condition. A rare and intimate archive documenting contrasting experiences of daily life in Panama across rural Indigenous communities and modernizing urban zones in the early 1940s with strong documentary value in the areas of colonial tourism race and hemispheric wartime movement. unknown
1911100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co.,
1967332687Morocco: Gnaoua Press 1967. First edition. 20 pp. viii. 8vo. Staple bound illustrated wrappers some sunning to spine and stain from price sticker else near fine. First edition. 20 pp. viii. 8vo. Panama Rose was the pen name of Rosalind Schwartz whose partner at the time was poet underground filmmaker publisher and photographer Ira Cohen. From around 1961-1965 they lived together in Tangier Morocco where they spent time with other ex-pats Paul Bowles William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin and worked on music and publications. Schwartz wrote The Hashish Cookbook at the suggestion of Brion Gysin who years earlier had given Alice B. Toklas the hashish fudge recipe that appears in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Often The Hashish Cookbook is wrongly attributed as being written by Cohen himself though he did publish it when he returned to New York in 1966. 10000 copies were printed and sold within six weeks. Cohen later sold the rights to a British publisher for a percentage of sales and subsequent reprints were made and some bootlegs are known to exist. Gnaoua Press unknown
1910226891910. Unknown photographers early twentieth-century Panama photo archive circa 1910s to 1920s documents Panama during the decades surrounding the completion and early operation of the Panama Canal supporting research into U.S. engineering influence urban modernization Indigenous representation tourism waterfront labor and the transformation of Panama City and Colón into canal-era commercial spaces. The Panama Canal was completed and opened in 1914 linking the Atlantic and Pacific through one of the period's most consequential engineered waterways and the Gatun Locks formed part of the lock system that lifted vessels to Gatun Lake before lowering them at the opposite end of the route. These photographs record not only canal machinery and civic streets but also the human geography around the canal: tourists workers traders children waterfront activity ruins and leisure businesses appear together in a visual record of Panama's modernization under strong American commercial and infrastructural presence.<br /> <br /> Fifteen pieces comprising fourteen silver gelatin photographs and real photo postcards with one printed business advertisement card Panama circa 1910s to 1920s measuring approximately 2½ x 3¾ inches to 4 x 6 inches. The canal views include "Operating Emergency Dam Gatun Locks Panama Canal" and a view captioned "Gatun Locks" showing massive steel gates and early twentieth-century bridgework. Urban scenes include "Street Scene Panama City on Southern Cruise 1923" with American tourists Model T automobiles and colonial façades and "The Plaza Panama City" showing palm trees streetcar tracks and civic space. Local and historical subjects include a real photo postcard captioned "Circular Stairway in Old Panama ruins of Old Panama standing at the foot and looking directly up" documenting Panama Viejo the site of the original Panama City founded in 1519 and later recognized as part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Other images include "Panama Water Front at High Tide" with fishing boats and market activity; dockworkers and traders near the canal's edge; and "Children in San Blas Panama" foregrounding Indigenous presence during the Canal era. The San Blas Islands are associated with the Guna an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia whose communities are strongly identified with Guna Yala and the San Blas archipelago. <br /> <br /> The advertisement card reading "When in Colon Visit the Café Hollywood" places the photographic group within the leisure and service economy that grew around canal traffic tourism and foreign presence. Together the images clarify the different but connected worlds of early twentieth-century Panama: the engineered landscape of Gatun Locks the colonial and modern streets of Panama City the ruins of Old Panama the working waterfront Indigenous children in San Blas and the commercial culture of Colón. Minor corner wear and toning; images sharp and well preserved very good overall. Cohesive Panama Canal era archive documenting the intersection of American engineering urban transformation Indigenous life waterfront labor and tourist commerce in the early decades of the Canal Zone. unknown
1920217831920. Archive of photographs documenting the Panama Canal and Indigenous communities in Panama in the early twentieth century ranging from the industrial landscape of the canal's construction and operation to the daily lives of Indigenous Panamanian peoples. The photographs reflect two intertwined yet often contrasting aspects of Panamanian history: the rise of industrial imperialism and the endurance of Indigenous culture. Archive of 33 silver gelatin photographs. Each measure between 4.5" x 2.5" to 3.5" x 2.25". <br /> <br /> The series prominently features engineering achievements along the canal route. Images include multiple angles of locks and lift bridges such as the Miraflores Pedro Miguel and Gatun Locks as well as steamships and freighters navigating through the canal and moored along its edges. Several views capture drawbridges in operation mechanical infrastructures like lock control houses and long rail-lined chambers used to elevate ships across Panama's central isthmus. A few aerial or elevated shots emphasize the canal's monumental scale revealing vast water channels and industrial zones carved through jungle terrain. A second subset of photographs focuses on the Welland Ship Canal in Ontario Canada suggesting a comparative or thematic link between North American waterway engineering and the Panama Canal project-possibly compiled by a traveler engineer or canal enthusiast.<br /> <br /> In contrast the ethnographic photographs document Indigenous Panamanian groups-most likely Guna Kuna and Emberá-Wounaan peoples-living in thatched-roof villages dressed in traditional textiles body paint and adornments. Several portraits show children and adults standing in front of woven bamboo huts while others portray groups in ceremonial or communal settings. The camera's perspective suggests a Western possibly touristic or anthropological gaze reflecting the era's colonial attitudes toward Indigenous populations. The Panama Canal completed in 1914 under U.S. control after a failed French attempt was one of the most ambitious engineering projects of the 20th century. It transformed global maritime trade by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America. The canal's construction required the displacement of communities massive deforestation and the recruitment of tens of thousands of laborers primarily from the Caribbean who worked under harsh and segregated conditions.<br /> <br /> Indigenous populations in the canal zone and surrounding regions were deeply affected by this transformation. Their lands were often appropriated for canal infrastructure military zones or settler expansion. Cultural disruptions ecological degradation and restricted access to traditional territories became ongoing challenges. At the same time Indigenous communities-especially the Guna-resisted assimilation and maintained distinct cultural practices leading to moments of organized resistance like the 1925 Guna Revolution which asserted political autonomy in the face of Panamanian and U.S. pressures. This archive preserves a multifaceted visual history of Panama at a time of profound transition. The industrial photographs document the ambitions and outcomes of a modern imperial project while the ethnographic images capture Indigenous identities that persisted despite external pressures. Together they offer insight into the tensions between modernization and tradition progress and displacement-narratives that continue to shape Panama's national story today. unknown
1904182051904. Photograph album circa 1904-1914 documenting maritime activity canal construction and social life in Panama during the period of American engineering control of the Panama Canal project. The images center on a group of American men traveling aboard a small yacht identified in several photographs by the presence of the American yacht ensign indicating a private pleasure vessel rather than a military or commercial ship. Several photographs appear to show large-scale excavation and infrastructure consistent with canal construction situating the album within the decade of intensive labor and engineering that culminated in the canal's completion in 1914. Alongside these scenes are numerous images of local life including Indigenous children and adults along coastal and riverine environments as well as built landscapes featuring plantation-style houses adapted to tropical climates. The album provides visual evidence of the intersection of American presence large-scale infrastructure development and local communities in early twentieth-century Panama.<br /> <br /> Photograph album containing images mounted on black pages within a black leather-bound volume measuring approximately 10 x 7 inches and comprising 86 pages. The photographs depict shipboard life including crew members steering and managing vessels group portraits of men in bathing attire and social gatherings such as shared meals. Additional images show coastal scenes with canoes swimmers and shoreline activity as well as occasional figures in military dress. The composition of the album reflects both travel documentation and informal social photography capturing a range of maritime domestic and environmental subjects.<br /> <br /> 86-page album with photographs mounted throughout; one page partially clipped and one page removed with small tears to several pages not affecting images. Light sunning to some photographs; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual record of American maritime travel and canal-era activity in Panama documenting both infrastructure development and everyday life in the region. unknown
1915224481915. Unknown photographer Panama Canal Zone and local life photo archive 1915 documents Panama during the first year after the canal's opening to traffic and supports research into U.S. imperial administration Canal Zone settlement travel photography military protection of infrastructure and the visual ordering of colonial space. The Panama Canal opened to traffic on August 15 1914 after U.S. construction created a strategic interoceanic route administered through the Canal Zone and Balboa Heights became a key administrative and residential center for the U.S.-controlled canal system. These photographs capture the built and natural environment through which American authority was made visible: locks river landscapes official buildings hilltop housing city views and naval practice appear together as evidence of a recently completed engineering project becoming an occupied administrative territory.<br /> <br /> Twenty-four original silver gelatin photographs including two real photo postcards dated 1915 with some undated images several with handwritten inscriptions in English on versos and some with printed captions on rectos. Photographs measure approximately 3½ x 5 inches to 5½ x 7 inches. The archive includes views of the Chagres River the largest river in the Panama Canal drainage basin and a major part of the canal water system together with photographs of the Gatun Locks canal gates aerial views of Panama City the main city plaza a bull ring and Balboa Heights. The Balboa Heights images show American-style bungalows arranged along curving terraced roads with broad verandas raised foundations and landscaped grounds visual evidence of the residential hierarchy attached to U.S. canal administration. Additional images show the Administration Building at Balboa Heights completed in 1914 and positioned above the town as a central administrative landmark while a real photo postcard captioned "Ready to Fire-Division Practice" shows U.S. naval boats in formation off the coast connecting sightseeing views to the military protection of the newly opened canal.<br /> <br /> The archive's research value lies in its combination of personal travel documentation official-looking captioned views urban and infrastructural scenes and military imagery from the early Canal Zone era. Its views of Balboa Heights are especially significant because U.S. canal society was organized through racialized and occupational distinctions including the "gold roll" and "silver roll" labor categories that separated white American workers from largely Black Caribbean and Latin American workers and shaped housing pay and privilege within the zone. Light edge wear legible inscriptions and preserved image surfaces very good overall. Cohesive Panama Canal Zone photo archive documenting the immediate post-opening landscape of U.S. power in Panama through canal infrastructure river systems segregated administrative space urban views and naval readiness. unknown
1930224461930. Caribbean and Panama travel photograph album. circa early 1930s. This album documents interwar travel through the Panama Canal Zone and Jamaica recording maritime transit canal infrastructure and rural Caribbean life as observed by Western travelers. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of the Panama Canal as a site of industrial activity and international movement alongside scenes of Jamaican village life and landscape establishing a contrast between engineered environments and colonial rural settings. The material is particularly strong in its depiction of canal operations and the presence of local populations within these spaces.<br /> <br /> Album containing 29 silver gelatin photographs mounted on black leaves with individual prints measuring approximately 3.5 x 4.5 to 5 x 7 inches housed in a string-bound album measuring approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. The opening sequence shows passengers aboard a steamship with men and women posed along deck rails and views of ships navigating canal locks and docking areas. Additional images depict cranes drawbridges canal cuts and small boats in the water along with dock workers and uniformed personnel visible among travelers. Architectural and infrastructural views include colonial-style buildings and mechanical equipment associated with canal operation concluding with a monument identified as that of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama City. The Jamaica sequence includes landscape views of hillsides and gardens along with images of Black Jamaican residents posed in village settings. One photograph bears the caption "Kingston Jamaica 10 -- S.S. 'Reliance' West Indies Cruise" showing children and adults gathered along a dirt road lined with wooden and metal-roofed structures. Other images show groups assembled beneath trees and within rural surroundings.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period when the Panama Canal served as a major conduit for global shipping under U.S. administration and Caribbean travel formed part of organized cruise itineraries the album reflects established routes of interwar tourism. The juxtaposition of canal engineering and Jamaican village scenes situates the photographs within broader patterns of travel that linked industrial infrastructure with colonial landscapes. Minor water rippling to pages and photographs; images remain clear; overall very good. A coherent travel album documenting canal operations and Caribbean life in the early twentieth century. unknown
1920230431920. Panama City photograph archive ca. 1920s documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal's opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering international commerce tourism and everyday street life that developed as Panama City became a strategic hub of global shipping and American geopolitical influence in the Caribbean basin. Urban scenes depict commercial storefronts streetcars automobiles and pedestrian activity along central avenues while other photographs capture the canal's mechanical landscape of locks spillways and industrial structures. Together the images illustrate the transformation of Panama City into a cosmopolitan port city shaped by canal traffic international trade and the presence of the U.S. Canal Zone administration.<br /> <br /> Archive of eighteen original silver gelatin photographs depicting Panama City and surrounding canal infrastructure. Each measure approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Several images show major canal engineering features including a photograph captioned "Purifying Plant and Spillway - Panama Canal" as well as views of lock systems and canal transport routes where cargo vessels pass through the waterway. Urban photographs record commercial and entertainment districts including a façade marked "American Cabaret" a busy street labeled "Street Scene - Panama City" and a view of the Hotel Central along a principal thoroughfare lined with automobiles and electric streetcars. One photograph bears the caption "264 - President's Palace on day of Riot Panama 2-28-." showing crowds gathered along balconies and streets near the presidential residence during a moment of public unrest. Additional photographs document daily life and local commerce including outdoor market scenes pedestrians and vendors workers posing near canal machinery and residents standing beside storefront displays. Landscapes and travel images appear as well including a waterfall and rural roadside scenes with automobiles indicating the expansion of modern transportation and tourism into the Panamanian countryside during the early twentieth century.<br /> <br /> The photographs collectively capture the layered social and industrial landscape that emerged in Panama after the completion of the Panama Canal when the city became a focal point of hemispheric trade and international transit. The canal drastically shortened maritime routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and reshaped the economy of the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Americas. Panama City consequently developed a complex urban culture combining local Panamanian communities canal workers foreign merchants travelers and U.S. officials connected to canal administration. Light surface wear and minor edge handling visible on several prints overall very good condition. These images document that environment through views of transportation infrastructure entertainment venues commercial streets and civic spaces offering a visual record of Panama City during the formative decades of the canal era. Photographs measure approximately postcard size. unknown
191438258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 8 11/16 x 5 15/16 inches. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in.<br/> <br/> Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Bibliotek in 2017<br/> <br/> Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal.<br/> <br/> The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown
