Panama and Canal Zone Photograph Album
Scope and Contents
c. 1925. An album of 201 gelatin silver prints taken and assembled around 1925. Included are 6 contemporary color postcards of Panama and 10 sepia postcards of Colombia. All of the photographs were probably taken by a U.S. visitor who traveled the region by steamship. The images provide scenes of the Canal Zone, the canal locks, official and ornate buildings, private residences, and working class residents of the Canal Zone. Also included are views of boats and ships, the Marco Polo Yacht Club, the Balboa YMCA, the Hotel Titchfield, the Titchfield School, the home of Dr. Moseley, the ruins of Spanish fortresses, mission churches, and plantations.
Dates
- c. 1925
Conditions Governing Access
Open to the public. No known restrictions.
Extent
225 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Album clamshell Box 28
- Architecture, Colonial -- Panama Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture, Domestic -- Colombia Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture, Domestic -- Panama Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cities and towns -- Colombia Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Colombia Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Description and travel -- Panama Canal Zone Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Panama Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Panama Canal Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Panama and Canal Zone Photograph Album
- Subtitle
- Album 38, Image Archive, The Latin American Library, Tulane University
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Latin American Library at Tulane Repository
7001 Freret Street
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, 4th floor
Tulane University
New Orleans Louisiana 70118 US
(504) 865-5681
lal@tulane.edu
