Download or read book Panama and the Canal Zone in Pictures written by Peter English and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs written by Ulrich Keller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of an unprecedented technological advance unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs depict exotic settings, workers' housing, dredging operations, much more.
Download or read book Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose written by Willis John Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama in Pictures written by Lerner Publications Company. Geography Department and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the geography, history, government, people, economy, and culture of the Republic of Panama and the Panama Canal.
Download or read book Slides and Photographs written by University of the State of New York. Visual Instruction Division and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama Canal Pictures written by Anonymous and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Portrait of the Panama Canal written by William Friar and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic from William Friar about the Panama Canal has been completely updated and revised in time for the opening of the expanded locks. This engaging collection of contemporary and archival photographs is illuminated by Friar’s lively and informative text. Though the dream began as early as 1513 when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa first crossed the isthmus and saw the Pacific Ocean, it was not until 1914 that the Panama Canal became a reality. The French had started excavation for the Canal in 1869, but the work was beset by earthquakes and landslides; disease—malaria, yellow fever, cholera, beriberi, smallpox, and typhoid fever; and wild animals—from pumas and jaguars to a whole menagerie of poisonous snakes. By 1889, the money ran out and the whole enterprise collapsed in a cloud of scandal and bankruptcy that drove the French government from power. Some fifteen years later, on November 12, 1904, after much debate and political maneuvering, the first Americans arrived, and the work began again. The Canal opened less than ten years later, on August 15, 1914. For sixty-five years, the United States operated the Canal, but 1979 saw the start of a twenty-year transition. On December 31, 1999, control and day-to-day operations were turned fully over to the Republic of Panama. In the past fifteen years, the following changes have taken place in the Canal: widening the Gaillard Cut so two PANAMAX ships can pass each other; deepening the navigational channel in Gatun Lake to increase the capacity of the water reservoir; adding a new vessel traffic-management system that uses satellite Global Positioning System technology; the construction of two new sets of single-lane, three-step locks—one set at the Atlantic entrance and one at the Pacific; and adding two new navigational channels to connect the new locks to existing channels. In words and in photographs—both historical and contemporary—Portrait of the Panama Canal traces the story of the Canal from its beginnings as just a dream to its present reality as one of the wonders of the world.
Download or read book Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Destiny by Design written by Jeremy Sherman Snapp and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author/photographer Jeremy Snapp has produced a dramatic photo-essay of rare images that depict events in the decade preceding the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Original photos taken by Snapp's great-grandfather Gerald Sherman, a respected mining engineer of the day, deliver a technical perspective of this undertaking unlike anything previously published. Finally, as the U.S. ceded authority over the canal to the Panamanian government in 1999, Jeremy Snapp travelled to the canal zone with an antique cameratp capture images of the original buildings and construction relics that remained.
Download or read book Panama in Pictures written by Thomas Streissguth and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, government, economy, people, geography, and cultural life of Panama.
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Earle Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama Canal Zone Then and Now written by Michael S. Hart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication covers 150 historical photos (Then), in black and white, from 1904 to 1941 and include their original titles. The images recall the lifestyle of some villages and sites on the Pacific side of the Canal Zone such as Albrook, Ancon, Balboa, Balboa Heights, Clayton, Corozal, Diablo, Fort Amador, Gamboa, La Boca, Madden, Miraflores, Paraiso, Pedro Miguel and Summit. All current (Now) color photographs were taken this year (2016).
Download or read book Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose written by Willis John Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zone Policeman 88 a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers" is a non-fiction travelogue written by Harry Alverson Franck published in 1913. The author took a position as a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone, reporting his experiences and observations in a book that proved, like his debut, popular. A book with a theme of history and factual explanation.
Download or read book The Panama Canal Zone written by Charles Francis Adams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Seaway to the Future written by Alexander Missal and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal’s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era’s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management featuring innovations in technology, work, health, and consumption. For their middle-class audience in the United States, the writers depicted a foreign yet familiar place, a showcase for the future—images reinforced in the exhibits of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition that celebrated the Canal’s completion. Through these depictions, the building of the Panama Canal became a powerful symbol in a broader search for order as Americans looked to the modern age with both anxiety and anticipation. Like most utopian visions, this one aspired to perfection at the price of exclusion. Overlooking the West Indian laborers who built the Canal, its admirers praised the white elite that supervised and administered it. Inspired by the masculine ideal personified by President Theodore Roosevelt, writers depicted the Canal Zone as an emphatically male enterprise and Chief Engineer George W. Goethals as the emblem of a new type of social leader, the engineer-soldier, the benevolent despot. Examining these and other images of the Panama Canal project, Seaway to the Future shows how they reflected popular attitudes toward an evolving modern world and, no less important, helped shape those perceptions. Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association “Provide[s] a useful vantage on the world bequeathed to us by the forces that set out to put America astride the globe nearly a century ago.”—Chris Rasmussen, Bookforum
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Earle Harrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Panama Canal: Illustrated by Color Photography From the Original Authochrome Photographs Nothing could be truer than the statement that the canal workers have removed mountains. Culebra Cut might well be termed The Grand Canyon of the Canal, for so stupendous will it appear when completed that the most vivid imagination can scarcely imagine it the work of man. For nearly a century it has been the dream of nations, that some day man would succeed in tearing asunder the mountains forming the Continental Divide, allowing the waters of the Atlantic to unite with the placid Pacific through a great chan nel created by man, for the welfare of his posterity. Where the canal crosses the Cordilleras a great ravine had to be ex cavated in order to allow the water from Gatun Lake to flow through to the locks at Pedro Miguel. The cut at this point is about 500 feet deep and a half mile wide at the top. The excavation here has literally been done step by step, for while one lot of steam shovels were digging, and loading upon cars the rock and earth from one elevation, others were at work at lower elevations. A group of drills are shown in the center of the picture, drilling holes which are loaded with dynamite and exploded to loosen the material for the steam shovels. To the left of the drills, is a dirt train loaded with rock and earth, ready to start for the dumping ground six miles away. In the lower right hand corner is shown one of the huge steam shovels, which digs and loads five cubic yards of earth or rock each time the dipper is swung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
