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1938158618N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 64 vintage photographs including 53 matte-finish and eleven glossies documenting reconstruction of the Panama Canal's Dock 15 in Balboa. Most photographs with technical captions and dates from the negative on the rectos. Additionally included with the photographs is a collection of four booklets dated between 1919 and 1943 discussing various aspects of the canal's construction and improvements during that time as well as an original shipping envelope addressed from the Panama Canal Metal Trades Council. <br /> <br /> With Europe on the verge of war in the early 1930s the US government became increasingly concerned about its ability to move naval warships between oceans. The canal locks would be susceptible to bombing in the event of war the canal defenses were deemed inadequate and the locks already had difficulty accommodating large US battleships. As a result Congress passed a resolution on May 1 1936 authorizing a study of and subsequent improvements to the canal's defenses existing structure and vessel capacity. <br /> <br /> Originally constructed in 1911 Dock 15 was weakened by gradual earth movement necessitating its replacement. With the exception of the construction of the Madden Dam between 1930 and 1936 the $1220000 reconstruction of Dock 15 was one of the largest canal projects after the close of the construction era. <br /> <br /> Photographs: 61 photographs 10 x 8 inches 3 photographs 5 x 4 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased overall. <br /> <br /> Pamphlets: From 8 x 10.5 inches to 9 x 12 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine some with scattered foxing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
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
2003Q-0961501421The Cookbook Marketplace 2003-12-31. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Cookbook Marketplace hardcover
1975Q-0961501405The Cookbook Marketplace 1975-12-31. Spiral-bound. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Cookbook Marketplace unknown
1985Q-0961501413Bay Publications/The Junior Service League of Panama City Inc 1985-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bay Publications/The Junior Service League of Panama City, Inc hardcover
32208Panama: I. L. Maduro Jr. 1937. 18"x24" folded map to 9" x 4 1/4" size; stiff pictorial wraps of Balboa Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean on the front softcover; color maps and black and white photographic illustrations on verso with Ruins of Old Panama in text; wraps are lightly edgeworn else a very clean copy. <br/><br/> Panama: I. L. Maduro, Jr., (1937) paperback
193459934Panama: I.L. Maduro Jr. ca. 1934. 8vo. 4.5 x 9.25 in. with large colour birds-eye map of Panama canal on recto unfolding to 18 x 24 in. w/ text & photo illustrations in columns on verso. Colour-illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges cover art of steamship sailing through Canal on front cover Panama armorial on rear minor edgewear rubbing repaired closed tear to text below map still VG- copy. Early printing of this nicely executed birds-eye map of the Panama Canal detailing the sites and scenes a visitor would view while sailing through the Panama Canal with inset maps of Ancon Balboa Panama Colon and elevation tracing the excavation statistics for French and the U.S. across the isthmus. I.L. Maduro, Jr., paperback
192385579Mount Hope C. Z.: Panama Canal Press 1923. Revised 1923. Hardcover. Fair. 185p. Original cloth. 23cm. Pages yellowed. Cover rubbed and rather worn. Numerous short tears and soil marks. Lacks rear free endpaper. A heavily used copy. According to the Preface this was a revision of a book first published in 1921. OCLC locates only a 1949 edition 1 holding at the University of Illinois. Panama Canal Press hardcover
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
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
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
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
1019928115.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1167664604.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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116033207X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0364498161.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0656680687.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19365953Balboa Panama Canal Zone 1936. Very good. Eighty-four black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs each about 8 x 10 inches many with typed or manuscript captions on verso plus thirty-two typed documents some signed. Moderate edge wear occasional minor marginal chipping to photographs. Mostly minor wear to documents. A striking collection of photographs picturing construction of the Panama Canal during the years of the First World War. Many of the photographs are dated between 1914 and 1916 and almost all capture construction of the Panama Canal mainly around Dry Dock #1 at the Balboa and Pacific Terminals. Many of the photographs are captioned either typed or in manuscript on the verso providing valuable information on the settings of these images. Most of the images were taken from an elevated viewpoint from area towers offering unusual detail of the construction sites in the Balboa area "before flooding" of the canal with some images showing the canal "ready to be flooded;" the images taken at ground level also exhibit the sheer size and depth of the project with human figures dwarfed by the canal walls.<br /> <br /> A healthy number of images feature local workers of African descent engaged in manual labor on the walls and in the flat bottom of the canal. These workers are managed by a coterie of white subjects. In fact one of the more striking images speaks volumes about the literal separation between the managers and laborers in the Canal Zone. The photograph is a group shot featuring seventeen white managers standing in the foreground in front of a group of twenty-two Black workers.<br /> <br /> A sampling of the settings and activity revealed in the captions for the photographs include "Dy Dock #1 -- Entrance" "Placing granite in the hollow quoin -- Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa" "General view of Dry Dock #1 -- from the boom of Unloader Tower" "Progress of concrete in south wall as of Oct. 20 1914" "Head wall of Dry Dock #1" "Reinforcing around the suction chamber Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock looking from the head wall west towards the sea" "D.D. excavation looking eastward toward headwall of the dock from the Coffer Dam" "Reinforcement in and around cross culverts at the west and end of Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock #1 one month after commencing concrete work in the south wall" "Dry Dock No. 1 Pumping Plant -- Erecting 54-inch Check Valves -- Looking west" "General view of construction progress around pump well and discharge culvert -- Dry Dock" "Dry Dock Gate -- South Leaf -- Heel casting after wedges have been placed and rivets driven" "Reinforced concrete pontoons -- Preparing to pour concrete in No. 2 pontoon" and "Placing the last girder on dock gate Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa."<br /> <br /> The photographs are accompanied by a group of more than thirty military documents relating to the service of Major William C. Foote in the mid-1930s. Most of the documents concern Major Foote's assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Amador in the Canal Zone in Balboa. Both the photographs and documents were found in a large envelope marked "Personal File Major William C. Foote." Finding the Panama Canal photographs along with Major Foote's later paperwork indicate that he probably acquired the photographs while serving in the Canal Zone and the material stayed together all these years. unknown
19015961Paris: New Panama Canal Company 1901. First edition. Pamphlet stapled. Very Good hole in lower front cover from owner's stamp. Octavo 12pp. English language description of the New Panama Canal Company is a detailed text on the company and its mission work accomplished thus far plans and even a section titled "Causes which have delayed resumption of work on a grand scale." Scarce item of historical interest. New Panama Canal Company unknown
1825368803Burdeos Bordeaux: en casa de Lawalle Jóven y Sobrino 1825. 155pp. 12mo. Modern red morocco and cloth front cover off original printed wrappers bound in. 155pp. 12mo. Bolivar propose the Congress which took place in 1826. en casa de Lawalle Jóven y Sobrino unknown
197785023Guatemala: Editorial Landívar 1977. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.75cm; pictorial card wrappers; 67-942pp; text is entirely in Spanish. This copy is from the library of to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez inscribed to him by the author signing off with his pseudonym "Cubena" on the title page: "para la profesora Roberto Marquez / Paz Amor Justicia / Cubena / 77/ Los Angeles." Some wear to extremities a few creases to corners; contents clean; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Collection of a dozen short stories by the Afro-Panamanian author and scholar Carlos Guillermo Wilson 1941-2016 whose work written chiefly under the pseudonym "Cubena" was centered around the lives and struggles of Afro-Panamanians. Uncommon in commerce especially inscribed. Editorial Landívar unknown
0428525180.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0761450882.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
