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A 1913 view of Gatun Locks shows the opening of the lower guard gates "looking south from the forebay." Thousands of people worked in the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1914, and the surviving court records are the most important source of information for learning about their lives there. (106-RC-226)

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