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The construction of the Panama canal
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
A group of images documenting the failed attempt by the French government to complete the Panama Canal in the 1880s. Many of the images depict the last few months of construction before Ferdinand de Lessepes and his compatriots ran out of money and dissolved the company. The collection shows the lock construction including detailed images of workers in the canal cuts, heavy machinery, rail lines along the cuts, worker housing, and the terrain.
photCL 462
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Visual Materials
The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851 to 2014, depicts a wide variety of subjects and provides an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L.M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company. Notable in the collection is a contemporary four-plate ambrotype in a frame; it is a panoramic view of the Los Angeles River, 2014, by Michael Kolster (photPAN 147).
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Manuscripts
Report detailing the preference for building the interoceanic canal in the ismus of Panama rather than through Nicaragua.
mssHM 49256
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 11 photographs with captions depicting scenes of labor and life by the Culebra Cut including images of a train dumping earth from the Cut, workers using steam drills and other tools, a labor camp near the Cut, a busy street on pay day, and a view north from the Cut.
photCL 743
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 11 photographs with captions depicting scenes of labor and life by the Culebra Cut including images of a train dumping earth from the Cut, workers using steam drills and other tools, a labor camp near the Cut, a busy street on pay day, and a view north from the Cut.
photCL 743