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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
1990002249Bonn, 1990. -- Heft -- DINA4 0
194579889Roma: Editrice Cultura Moderna Collana del Girasole 1945. Brossura wrappers. Molto buono Very Good. Riproduzione di un disegno di Van Gogh. Traduzione di Guglielmo Santangelo. 16mo. pp. 164. Molto buono Very Good. Dorso riparato Repaired spine. Prima edizione italiana di 1000 L es. numerati. Editrice Cultura Moderna, Collana del Girasole 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
19876478München, Droemer/Knaur Verlag, 1987. 8°, 668 S. 2 Flecken a. VS., sonst ger. Gebr.sp., kartoniert
1973141520N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> A young woman is torn between her estranged ex-husband a rich man who is attempting to win her back and the man she has been seeing ever since she and her husband split up who also happens to be his lawyer. She will not commit to him but subsequently will not let her ex back into her life. <br /> <br /> Set in New York City. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 4 1973 with credits for screenwriters Norman Panama and Albert E. Lewin. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
196580906Balboa Heights C.Z.: Panama Canal Company December 29 1965. Presumed First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. viii 144 4 pages. Organization Chart. Tables. Some cover wear. Includes Introduction; Chapter 1--Review of Canal Traffic; Chapter II--The Waterway; Chapter III--Supporting Operations; Chapter IV--Administration; Chapter V--Financial Report and Statistical Data. Followed by a section on the Canal Zone Government; Chapter I--Public Health Chapter II Public Education Chapter III--Public Order and Protection Chapter IV--Posts Customs and Immigration Chapter V--Licenses Insurance and Estates Chapter VI--Municipal Improvements and Chapter VII--Financial Report and Statistical Data including Financial Statements and Related Supplementary Reports. The Board of Directors has initiated investigation of the feasibility of securing certain support services from private sources instead of making further investment of Company funds in capital plant to provide such services. Balboa Heights was the administrative headquarters for the U.S.-owned Panama Canal Company during the period 1903-79 when the Canal Zone was in operation. Murals in the administration building still in use by the Panama Canal Authority depict the canal's construction. The Canal Zone Library and Museum founded 1914 in Balboa Heights exhibits relics and miniatures of important ships in Panama's history. The Canal Zone Government and the Panama Railroad Company renamed the Panama Canal Company designated as the civil government and operating agency respectively of the Canal Zone and the Panama Canal effective July 1 1951 by an act of September 26 1950 Superseded by the Panama Canal Commission. The Panama Canal Railway is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The route stretches 47.6 miles 76.6 km across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón Atlantic to Balboa Pacific near Panama City.2 Because of the difficult physical conditions of the route and state of technology the construction was renowned as an international engineering achievement one that cost US$8 million and the lives of an estimated 5000 to 10000 workers. Opened in 1855 the railway preceded the Panama Canal by half a century; the ship canal was later constructed parallel to the railway. Known as the Panama Railroad Company when founded in the 19th century today it is operated as Panama Canal Railway Company reporting mark: PCRC. Since 1998 it has been jointly owned by Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products and leased to the government of Panama. The Panama Canal Railway currently provides both freight and passenger service. The line was built by the United States and the principal incentive was the vast increase in passenger and freight traffic from eastern USA to California following the 1849 California Gold Rush. The United States Congress had provided subsidies to companies to operate mail and passenger steamships on the coasts and supported some funds for construction of the railroad which began in 1850; the first revenue train ran over the full length on January 28 1855. Referred to as an inter-oceanic railroad when it opened it was later also described by some as representing a "transcontinental" railroad despite transversing only the narrow isthmus connecting the North and South American continents. For a time the Panama Railroad also owned and operated ocean-going ships that provided mail and passenger service to a few major US East Coast and West Coast cities respectively. The infrastructure of this railroad was of vital importance to the construction of the Panama Canal over a parallel route half a century later. Panama Canal Company hardcover
198213319Berlin: Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1982. 2. Auflage 223 Seiten , 23 cm, kart.,
1964000762Panama: Oficina de Informacion del Canal de Panama 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 122pp: HB blk w/gold no title on spine cornersedgesspine rubbed; clean tight pgs. b/w photos throughout. 50th anniversary of Panama Canal. Forward by Lyndon Johnson. In Spanish. <br/> <br/> Oficina de Informacion del Canal de Panama hardcover
19811580Berlin: Das Neue Berlin, 1981. 335 Seiten , 21 cm, Leinen
194754541Zürich, Pan-Verlag, 1947, Auflage: 1. Leinen, gebunden; brauner, goldgeprägter Einband, illustrierte Vorsätze / Anz. Seiten: 334 / 16 x 23 cm / mit zahlreichen Schwarzweissillustrationen / Zustand: gut, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; 1 Ecke etwas beschabt, Einband leicht berieben und gering fleckig, Papier etwas gebräunt und teilweise leicht fleckig, Schnitt etwas fleckig
19416498Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1941. 8°. 82 Abbildungen, 2 Karten. 274 S., 1 Bl. Illustrierter Original Ganzleinen. 9. Auflage. Namenszug auf Vorsatz.
19906044570Berlin 1990. 8°. (4), XIV, 313 pp. Broschur. Signaturschild und Stempel auf Umschlag. Stempel verso Titel. Sonst sehr ordentlich. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Gebrauchsspuren.
19916044569Frankfurt a. M. 1991. 8°. (2), XX, 175 pp. Broschur. Signaturschild und Stempel auf Umschlag. Stempel verso Titel. Sonst sehr ordentlich. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Gebrauchsspuren.
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
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
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
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
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
