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Booklet with a two-page description of the historical effort to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama and specific statistics about the construction and dimensions of the ongoing American effort. The booklet primarily consists of photographs of the construction.
Resource Type: Book
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Panama--Isthmus of Panama; Canals, Interoceanic--Design and construction; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1909-1911
Transcript from the Panama Canal Appropriation discussion. Secretary of War William H. Taft, as well as Senators Shonts, Hall, Perkins, Wetmore, and Warren discuss various issues regarding the salaries of the Chief Engineer John Frank Stevens, as well as the use of auditors.
Resource Type: Transcript
Subject: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.); United States. War Department; Auditors; Canal construction workers; Stevens, John F. (John Frank), 1853-1943; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930; Shonts, Theodore P. (Theodore Perry), 1856-1919; Perkins, George C. (George Clement), 1839-1923; Wetmore, George Peabody, 1846-1921; Warren, Francis E. (Francis Emroy), 1844-1929
Date: 1905-12-21?
This movie shows various scenes of construction on the Panama Canal, including barges, steam shovels, trains, and workers moving dirt and rubble out of the canal area.
Resource Type: Video
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Canals, Interoceanic--Design and construction
Date: Unknown
President Roosevelt pushes an elephant that carries a "Panama Canal project" box. Uncle Sam watches and says, "The right man is behind it!"
Resource Type: Cartoon
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); Republican elephant (Symbolic character); Canals, Interoceanic--Design and construction; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date: 1905-06-25
Set of 10 postcards with photographs of the Panama Canal during its construction. On the reverse side of each card is a short description of the photograph.
Resource Type: Postcard
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Canals, Interoceanic--Design and construction; Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 1859-1940; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1977
This multicolored photograph shows a central crane on railroad tracks and six workmen. From the book, The Panama Canal; illustrated by color photography from the original autochrome photographs. Published by Moffat, Yard, New York, 1913.
Resource Type: Photograph
Date: 1913
Award give to E. N. Purvis for two years of continuous service on the Panama Canal. The award consists of a hinged pin with a medallion hanging from a bar. The obverse of the medallion bears the likeness of President Roosevelt and on the reverse is a canal scene with ships traveling through the canal.
Resource Type: Pin, Clothing
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Awards; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date: 1906
Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through the channel to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, with views of the Gatun spillway and the Chagres River. From here she passes from Gaillard Cut (Culebra Cut), into the Pedro Miguel Locks and into Miraflores Lake; then through the Miraflores Locks and into the final portion of the canal, passing the Canal Zone towns of Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights. Final views are of the Ancon Hospital (Gorgas Hospital) and the United States Administration Building at Balboa.
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Panama--Colón; Panama--Gatun Lake; Panama--Balboa; Panama--Balboa Heights; Panama--Ancon; Panama--Miraflores Lake; Ships; Shipping; Canals
Date: 1919
Two shots of a ship moving through the Panama Canal.
Subject: Panama--Panama Canal; Canals, Interoceanic; Ships
A variety of boats and ships, as balloon aircraft loaded with tourists and travelers, float above the Panama Canal. It is suggested that the age of aviation will render the canal obsolete. Caption: At which distant day ocean navigation will be a trifle out of date.
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Subject: Panama; Panama--Panama Canal; Airships; Air travel; Canals
Date: 1906-01-31
