Panama fever (41 page)
Authors: Matthew Parker
Tags: #History - General History, #Technology & Engineering, #History, #Central, #Central America, #Americas (North, #Central America - History, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States, #Civil, #Civil Engineering (General), #General, #History: World, #Panama Canal (Panama) - History, #Panama Canal (Panama), #West Indies), #Latin America - Central America, #South, #Latin America
A West Indian wedding party at Culebra in 1913.
commissary store in Balboa, with its separate sections for “Silver” and “Gold.”
laude Mallet, with his Panamanian wife, Matilde de Obarrio. Mallet's official reports and private letters give an illuminating view of Panama during the construction period.
panish track workers taking a break in the Culebra Cut. Antonio Sanchez is second from right.
Steam shovels at work on the bottom of the canal.
Blasting rock on Contractors’ Hill, January 1912.
Loading holes with dynamite to blast the west bank of the Culebra Cut, February 1912.
t 4:30 p.m. on May 20, 1913, working at the final depth of the canal, shovels No. 222 and No. 230 meet “nose to nose” at the center of the Cut.
slide of 300,000 cubic yards in the Culebra Cut near Empire, August 21, 1912.
