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(PANAMA CANAL)
Contemporary binder with 50 vintage photographs that span a ten-year period of picturesque
Panama, with variant views of the canal and Culebra, including shop buildings and docks,
breakwaters in Limon Bay, freighters navigating the canal, towns with buildings housing laborers,
and construction of the canal, including layside side-wall culverts, the upper locks, an excavating
dredge, and a steam shovel. Silver prints, each approximately 7
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morroco. 1904-1914
[1,400/1,800]
The narrow land bridge between North and South America offered a unique opportunity to create a
water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.As the technology became available, construction
on the canal started with an initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal.Although their project
failed a great amount of excavation was carried out and successfully used by the United States, which
completed the present Panama Canal in 1913. (The canal officially opened it in 1914.) Along the
way, the state of Panama was created through its separation from Colombia in 1903.
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