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1925227551925. Latin America SS Resolute voyage photograph album 1925 documenting a steamship journey through Central and South America during the interwar expansion of international maritime tourism following the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The photographs record port cities landscapes and civic landmarks encountered along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Latin America during a period when luxury liners increasingly connected North American travelers with destinations across the hemisphere. By the 1920s transisthmian canal travel had reshaped global shipping and passenger routes allowing cruise itineraries to combine Caribbean Pacific and South American destinations within a single voyage. The album preserves visual evidence of these emerging travel circuits while also documenting major urban and cultural centers of the region during a period of modernization and expanding hemispheric exchange.<br /> <br /> Photo album compiled during the 1925 voyage of the steamship SS Resolute containing approximately 150 original silver gelatin photographs mounted to black album leaves and captioned in white ink. Contemporary red leatherette album titled "Photographs" in gilt and bound with red cord. Photographs measure approximately 3 x 4 inches to 4 x 6 inches. The photographs document the vessel's route through Panama and the Canal Zone before continuing along the Pacific coast of South America and returning through the Atlantic basin. Numerous photographs depict Panama City and the Panama Canal including views of the Culebra Cut and Gold Hill major engineering features of the canal project completed little more than a decade earlier. Other sections of the album record urban and harbor scenes in Cartagena Colombia including colonial architecture and waterfront activity. Photographs from Peru show Lima's Plaza de Armas the bullring at Miraflores and rural Andean valleys near Arequipa with terraced agricultural landscapes and local communities. Images from Chile capture the steep hills and harbor districts of Valparaíso along with coastal plazas and naval vessels near El Morro. Additional photographs from Argentina depict major civic spaces in Buenos Aires including Plaza San Martín and Plaza de Mayo documenting the monumental architecture and modernizing urban landscape of the city during the 1920s.<br /> <br /> The steamship SS Resolute operated as a passenger liner serving long distance routes during the interwar expansion of luxury cruising and international tourism. Voyages such as the one recorded in this album reflected the growing accessibility of transcontinental travel made possible by the Panama Canal and by the increasingly global network of commercial steamship lines linking the Americas. Mild toning consistent with age; mounts and binding well preserved. Overall very good condition. The photographs collectively document a hemispheric itinerary connecting canal infrastructure colonial port cities Andean landscapes and rapidly modernizing capitals offering a visual record of the cultural and geographic environments encountered by travelers during the height of the steamship era. unknown
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1980F1600-PanamaMorrow New York 1980 New York: William Morrow & Company 1980. First edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering and blue endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap $9.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo 203 pages. A psychological novel adapted from an unproduced screenplay by the authors it explores the boundaries between intimacy and deception. Norman Panama 1914-2003 was an American screenwriter film director and producer best known for his long collaboration with Melvin Frank on classic comedies such as "White Christmas" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." Albert E. Lewin 1916-1992 was a New Yorkborn writer for radio television stage and film whose papers are held at UCLA. "The Glass Bed" was their only published novel. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Morrow, New York hardcover
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2010DADAX1160747849Kessinger Publishing 2010-03-19. paperback. New. 8.25x1.10x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
626Some sunning to spine moisture stains over several pages. Good. JBS-626. <p>Panama Rose. The Hashish Cookbook. San Francisco CA: Level Press 1974. Second edition.</p> <br /> <p>Octavo. 20pp. Green wrappers saddle-stapled with black and white illustrations.</p> . unknown
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
1878z015741Liverpool: Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co 1878. Very Good. Letter of transmittal from a Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. Measures 8 by 10 inches recto only. Very good. Stain and paper repair to top corner letter creased else clean and unmarked. Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co unknown
1391853598.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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20071-1419678957Panama Publishing Inc. 2007. Paperback. New. 174 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.47 inches. Panama Publishing, Inc. paperback
20071-1419678949Panama Publishing Inc. 2007. Paperback. New. 134 pages. 8.30x5.50x0.40 inches. Panama Publishing, Inc. paperback
139008244X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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2010971H33Chatham: Inside Pocket Ltd. 2010. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Adrian Poxmage. A scarce signed first edition of this charming young adult mystery novel set in a Scottish castle with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This copy is the first edition third impression of this work. This copy is signed and dated by the author "Panama Oxridge 11/9/10" to the front free end paper. Panama Oxridge is a pseudonym used by Paul Adshead as revealed through a complex puzzle hidden across the Justin Thyme series website. This volume is a young adult adventure novel set in a Scottish castle overlooking Loch Ness the story introduces Justin Thyme a 13âyearâold billionaire inventor whose unusual birthday gift a mysterious watch. Appendix to rear with a glossary of terms and space for notes and theories. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally lovely with only very slight fading to extremities. Dust wrapper excellent with the slightest rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Author's dated signing to front free endpaper. Fine Inside Pocket Ltd. hardcover
200650305Interrobang Great Britain 2006. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. New Book/New. Inscribed by Author. OXRIDGE PANAMA. Justin Thyme The Tartan of Thyme Part One Great Britain: Interrobang 2006. Octavo first edition pp. 5 344 16 appendices and glossary maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine signed and inscribed by the author see below. It says: "Justin Thyme chose not to celebrate his birthday." And upside down: "1st September 2006 With Best Wishes from the paradoxical Panama Oxridge". First in a planned four-part series. There is also a puzzle to solve: Who is Panama Oxridge The clues are in the text. And what about the text Justin Thyme was supposed to be the next Harry Potter although he has no magical powers simply unnatural intelligence and enormous earnings from his inventions. The story is readable and young readers seem to like it but there is only one Harry Potter. Still the book went out of print. It has a cliffhanger ending and a number of loose ends but five years on the second book hadnt hit the market although a release was planned for this fall 2011 Thyme Running Out. Size: Octavo standard book size. 5 344 16. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Scotland; Modern; Crime Fiction. Inscribed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780955357008. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50305. . 9780955357008 Interrobang hardcover
01-1013Panama Marlin Club. Brass Plaque of a Marlin presented to Arthur Oppenheimer for catching a 501 lb. black marlin in 1969. 5.5 x 7 x 9/32 inches. Together with a framed picture of the fisherman and marlin. Panama Marlin Club. 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
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
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