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Album with 140 original gelatin silver vernacular photographs and panoramas, showing Panama City
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- circa 1900s (Creation)
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"Historically interesting, extensive collection of early original photographs of the Panama Canal, Caracas and Port of Spain in Trinidad. Most likely compiled by an American traveler in the 1900s. The album starts with several views of Panama City, showing the Metropolitan Cathedral, La Merced Church, Tivoli Hotel, railway station, city streets and residential areas. Four excellent large panoramas and about eighteen smaller snapshot photos depict the earth- and construction-works on the Panama Canal. Among the identified images of Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago) are large views of the Government House and a wharf, and a series of smaller photos, showing the business district, a corner of Frederick Street with Maillard's 'El Popular' store and Belmont street car, the city harbour, a man dressed up for Carnival, etc. The album also contains large, well-executed views of Caracas, Venezuela: A panorama with the Miraflores Palace, the old campus of the University, Plaza Bolivar with Simon Bolivar's equestrian statue, and a portrait of a group of local men and kids with the Miraflores Palace in the far right. The other photos show a port with the hangar with the sign 'Panama Railroad Co.'s Pier No. 4,' railway stations and trains, horse-driven tram cars, a public gathering near a shore office of a cable car line, residential and administrative buildings (most likely in the Panama Canal Zone), city streets, harbors, churches and cathedrals, scenes with travelers dining, conversing with other Europeans or Americans, etc." --description from the The Wayfarer's Bookshop