The Panama Canal, by Frederic J. Haskin ... illustrated from photographs taken by Ernest Hallen, official photographer of the Isthmian Canal Commission.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913.Description: x, 386 pages folded color frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Panama canal.DDC classification:
  • 986.3, Has
LOC classification:
  • TC774 .H4
  • F1566 H35 1913
Contents:
The land divided, the world united -- Greatest engineering project -- Gatun Dam -- The locks -- The lock machinery -- Culebra cut -- Ends of the canal -- The Panama Railroad -- Sanitation -- The man at the helm -- The organization -- The American workers -- The Negro workers -- The commissary -- Life on the zone -- Past isthmian projects -- The French failure -- Choosing the Panama route -- Controversy with Colombia -- Relations with Panama -- Canal Zone government -- Congress and the canal -- Sea level canal impossible -- Fortifications -- Fixing the tolls -- The operating force -- Handling the traffic -- The Republic of Panama -- Other great canals -- A new commercial map -- American trade opportunities -- The Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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  • commitment to retain 20151208
  • 250397 Charm
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The land divided, the world united -- Greatest engineering project -- Gatun Dam -- The locks -- The lock machinery -- Culebra cut -- Ends of the canal -- The Panama Railroad -- Sanitation -- The man at the helm -- The organization -- The American workers -- The Negro workers -- The commissary -- Life on the zone -- Past isthmian projects -- The French failure -- Choosing the Panama route -- Controversy with Colombia -- Relations with Panama -- Canal Zone government -- Congress and the canal -- Sea level canal impossible -- Fortifications -- Fixing the tolls -- The operating force -- Handling the traffic -- The Republic of Panama -- Other great canals -- A new commercial map -- American trade opportunities -- The Panama-Pacific Exposition.

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