|
BBC News : (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special%5Freport/1999/12/99/panama%5Fcanal/panama%5Fmain.stm)
Provides an interactive map of the Panama Canal.
Brief History of the Panama Canal. (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/%7Edelacova/canal/canal-history.htm)
Contains a brief history of the Panama Canal, provided online by Antonio Rafael de la Cova. Includes statistical information about the monetary and human costs, as well as the building process.
Canal Zone Images (http://www.czimages.com/)
Presents a collection of photographic images of the Panama Canal and the area surrounding the canal, compiled by William McLaughlin. Includes images of the canal's construction, use, and maintenance.
Canal Zone/Panama Canal Cyber Museum (http://www.czimages.com/CZMemory.htm)
Presents an online museum of collectibles and artifacts relating to the Canal Zone and Panama Canal, compiled by William P. McLaughlin. Recounts the history of the canal. Offers access to images of the canal, as well as of collectibles associated with the canal.
A Collection of railroad publications from the United States, Mexico, and Panama, (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf409nb29n)
Collection contains mostly railroad company annual reports, as well as various company legal and financial information. Contains a small section on the Tehuantepec Isthmus, and many route maps covering each company's territory. Companies represented in the collection include: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Co., Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co., Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Co., Kansas Pacific Railway, Mexican Central Railway, Mexican International Railroad Co., Mexican National Railroad Co., Missouri Pacific Railway Co., Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Northern Pacific Terminal Co. of Oregon, Oregon Improvement Co., Oregon Pacific Railroad Co., Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co., Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., Oregon and Transcontinental Co., Pacific Railroads, Panama Railroad Co., Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Co., Sonora Railway Co., Ltd., Southern Pacific Co., Southern Pacific Railroad Co., St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co., St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Co., Tehuantepec Railroad, Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Canal, Tehuantepec Ship-Railway, Texas and Pacific Railway Co., and Union Pacific Railway Co.
DR. WILLIAM GORGAS (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4118)
Film has ca. 2 ft. of views of Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, chief sanitation officer of the Panama Canal (1904-1913) and member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, standing in front of a building; location of this sequence is undetermined. Remainder of film shows Dr. Gorgas and an unidentified man riding on a Panama Canal Company train. The two men are silhouetted against passing scenery of the Canal Zone as Dr. Gorgas shows the other man points of interest. The train passes a body of water which is probably a part of the canal, countryside, buildings probably on Front Street, Colon, including a YMCA club; final scene of people walking across tracks after the train passes.
El Canal de Panama (http://www.pancanal.com/)
Provides historical and current information about the Canal and its operations.
El Siglo: El Canal de Panam & aacute;: Fuerza de Trabajo. (http://www.pancanal.com/eng/index.html)
Web page from El Siglo with links to several sites relating to the Panama Canal. Most of the links relate to Spanish texts.
George Malby collection, (http://www.stlawu.edu/library:http/rbrwelco.html)
The collection consists of speeches and printed matter relating to the building of the Panama Canal, a book "Panama" by Ashley Carter, material relating to the proposed Nicaragua Canal, and numerous newspaper obituaries about Malby. St. Lawrence University received the collection from Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Ogdensburg, New York in June of 1971. Malby was Mrs. Armstrong's husband Howards great uncle.
History and Building of the Panama Canal (http://www.dodea.osd.mil/sites/balboa/canhis.html)
An extensive history of the Panama Canal and Building of the Panama Canal in 1903.
Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI), Panama. (http://www.ari-panama.com/)
Features the Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI) of Panama, which guides the conversion and development of former U.S. military installations and is based in Balboa Ancon. Includes a directory of properties and information on projects. Contains site information in English and Spanish and links to maps and announcements.
Java Animation Explaining the Operation of the Panama Canal. (http://www.ared.com/kora/java/pcc/javaani.html)
Provides an overview of the history of the Panama canal, as well as animation that explains the operation of the canal, presented by Kora Transportation and Isthmian Records Management and Storage System, Inc. The canal extends across the Isthmus of Panama from Colon on the Caribbean Sea to Balboa on the Bay of Panama. The canal was opened on August 15, 1914.
Ley Organic & aacute; de la Autoridad del Canal de Panam & aacute (http://www.pananet.com/pancanal/treaty/law/spanish/contents.html)
Complete text of the Organic Law creating the Panama Canal Authority. In Spanish.
Make the dirt fly! (http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt-Fly/)
Electronic version of an exhibition to commemorate the building of the Panama Canal (1904-1914), the engineers and the people who accomplished the project.
Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá (http://www.sinfo.net/pcmuseum/index.html)
Official page of the Panama Canal Museum. In Spanish.
THE PANAMA CANAL - HISTORY (http://www.maui.com/%7Etwright/panama/pan004a.htm)
Excerpts from the official brochure of The Panama Canal Commission.
Panama Canal (http://www.panamatours.com/Pancanal/Canal%5Fintro.htm)
Panama Tours provides an overview of the Panama Canal. The information includes a brief history of the canal, a description of the services and facilities, and more.
Panama Canal Commission (http://www.pananet.com/pancanal/pcc.htm)
The Panama Canal Commission offers information on the Panama Canal. This information includes procurement details, Panama Canal authority legislation, official tariff marine services, and more, as well as access to press releases.
Panama Canal Facilidades y Servicios (http://www.panamatours.com/Pancanal/Canal%5Fservices%5Fesp.htm)
Tourist guide for the Canal, providing a description of places to visit. In Spanish.
The Panama Canal History Timeline (http://www.battleship-newjersey.com/panama/spainfrance.html)
Panama Canal History Timeline Compiled by Bob Wernet provides a chronological history of the Panama Canal.
Panama Canal Society. (http://www.pancanalsociety.org/)
Presents the Panama Canal Society of Florida, Inc., a not-for-profit organization in Seminole, Florida, for the former and current American employees that were or are involved in the construction, operation, maintenance or protection of the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal (http://www.eclipse.co.uk/%7Esl5763/panama.htm)
A short history of the Panama Canal with information on the locks and dams.
Panama Canal--scenes of the finished Canal / (urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4129)
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 Colo�n on the Atlantic end, through the channel to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, 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 U.S. Administration Building at Balboa.
Panama Canal. (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/Panama/PanamaUnit)
Features a lesson plan on the Panama Canal, written by Mary Jewell of Memorial Academy Charter School in San Diego. Explains that in the lesson the students conduct research about the geography, structure, and history of the Panama Canal.
Papers, (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Magoon,Charles%5FEdward.html)
Letters of introduction and congratulations to Charles Edward Magoon pertaining to his work for the Division of Insular Affairs (renamed the Bureau of Insular Affairs in 1902) of the United States War Department, 1899-1904, and to his service with the United States State Department as minister to Panama and governor of the Canal Zone, 1905-1906, and provisional governor of the Republic of Cuba, 1906-1909.
Protocol amending investment treaty with Panama : (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS7155)
At head of title: 106th Congress, 2d session. Senate.
Records of the Panama Canal (http://www.nara.gov/guide/rg185.html)
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (http://www.sil.si.edu/newstart.htm)
Features the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, which includes library branches in Washington, D.C., Maryland, New York, and Panama. Provides information about the libraries' collections, databases, electronic journals, branch libraries, exhibitions, programs, services, and donations. Offers access to the semiannual newsletter "Information."
TR speaking in Panama, November 1906 / (urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4178)
TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, there are views of TR and Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men arriving and standing on a platform on the steps of the Cathedral in Panama City; medium shot of two women arriving at the ceremony, woman on the right may be Edith Roosevelt; long shot of President Amador Guerrero delivering welcoming address as dignitaries look on; TR then speaks.
TR'S ARRIVAL IN PANAMA, NOVEMBER 1906 (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(trmp+4179)))
TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama City there are views of the processional, including a marching band and escorts on horseback, as spectators gather; long shot of TR, accompanied by Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men standing on a platform on the steps of the Cathedral; President Amador Guerrero delivers welcoming address as dignitaries look on; TR then speaks.
TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906 [2] / (urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4179)
TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama City there are views of the processional, including a marching band and escorts on horseback, as spectators gather; long shot of TR, accompanied by Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men standing on a platform on the steps of the Cathedral; President Amador Guerrero delivers welcoming address as dignitaries look on; TR then speaks.
William H. Taft in Panama. (urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4173)
On one of many visits to Panama, William Howard Taft inspects canal construction and visits ruins in what may be the Panamanian jungle. Views of crowd of men and women on dock, posing for camera; a tugboat pulls into unidentified harbor, with Taft and General George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal project, seated on upper deck; Taft and entourage in formal dress board what may be the armored cruiser Tennessee, while crew stands at attention; view of cruiser deck; Taft and entourage disembark from unidentified vessel, with crowd gathered on dock; Taft party is greeted at train by General Goethals: party includes Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, wife of the President, and Federico Alfonso Pezet, minister to the United States from Peru. In last scene Taft and members of his party visit site of stone ruins in the jungle.
The story of the Panama Canal [1] / (urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4175)
Compilation film revealing the story of the Panama Canal construction, which TR considered one of his most valuable contributions to foreign affairs. Most prominent views are of the need for building the canal, the early attempts, the actual construction, and finally the canal in operation. Sequences of stills, mostly maps, showing the need for a shorter way from ocean to ocean; views of the early attempts by Ferdinand de Lesseps; USS Oregon which had to sail around South America from the Pacific to fight in the Spanish-American War; scenes of President William McKinley and TR in 1901; brief shot of TR, Lyman J. Gage, Philander C. Knox, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, William R. Day, Elihu Root, Charles E. Smith, and James Wilson at McKinley's funeral in Canton, Ohio, 1901; medium close shot of Dr. William C. Gorgas, who had charge of sanitation during the building of the Panama Canal; workers clearing the canal of yellow fever; TR's visit to Panama in 1906 and his meeting with President Manuel Amador Guerrero; view of Colonel George W. Goethals, chief engineer and first governor; sequences of machinery, huge cranes, gigantic steam shovels, and men working on the actual construction of the canal; various shots of Gamboa Dike, Miraflores locks, and Gaillard (Culebra) Cut; launch of two barges in lock, boats, and battleships using the canal; final sequence is of President Calvin Coolidge speaking.
|