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Booklet: Uncle Ben in Panama

A collection of "letters home" from a particular region by fictional international traveler, "Uncle Ben." Uncle Ben's letters were intended for a third, fourth, and fifth grade audience, and first appeared in the geography column of My Weekly Reader before being collected and republished in 10-cent book readers such as this item.

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Pamphlet: Panama and Panama Canal. The year-round resort. Sunshine-joy-achievement. The greatest gateway

"Booklet, black and white photo illustrations, color centerfold map, 11pp, 9 x 4 inches unfolding to 9 x 8 inches, color pictorial paper wrappers. Covers lightly worn; very good condition. Attractive cover illustrations. Centerfold world map 'God's Handiwork in Placing Panama at the Central Point of the World's Business' showing all shipping routes funneling through the canal." -oldimprints.com

Map: Pictorial map of Historic Panama

"Leong, Ting (?) (illus). Color pictorial/pictographic map, 11 1/2 x 17 on sheet 12 1/2 x 18 folding to pamphlet mailer 9 x 4 1/4 inches. Text and map of canal zone on verso. Address filled in on verso of mailer, very good condition. No date. Early 1940s. 'A Personnel Service from Hq. Sixth Air Force.' The brief history concludes: 'Today the spotlight of history is once more focused on the Isthmus of Panama. Now, thanks to the diligence and ingenuity of other Americans, it can be a major highway on the road to Japan. V-J Day will come sooner because the United States completed the Panama Canal.'" -oldimprints.com

Map: Bird's eye view of the Panama Canal and Map of Panama

" I.L. Maduro, Jr. Panama. Ca. 1910. Color folding map on sheet 18 x 24 inches folding as issues into 9 x 4 1/4 inch color pictorial stiff card folder, black and white photo illustrations and text on verso. Light wear to covers, small pencil mark on front cover, 1/2 inch tear to left upper edge (outside map area); very good condition. Map features a chart of Excavations made by the U.S. Government and by the French, plus a map of Panama and information on the Republic of Panama. The verso of map includes eleven numbered panels with information on the Cities along the Canal, the Panama Canal, the Gatun Dam, the Spillway, the Culebra Cut and the Locks. The inside back cover features Canal Statistics." -oldimprints.com

Pamphlet: Panama. Colon.

"Panama Tourist's Bureau. Panama. No date. Ca. 1928. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations, 24pp, 8 x 6 inches folding to 8 x 4 inches, color pictorial paper wrappers. The front cover is lightly soiled and has a v-shaped tear to the lower text border and a one inch split to the lower spine; interior and back cover in good to very good condition. A detailed look in text and image at the attractions of Panama and Colon, with colorful illustrations on the front and back covers, information on 'What Panama Offers the Tourist' and numerous city views, Statistics of the Panama Canal, etc." -oldimprints.com

Map: The Panama Canal as seen by Charles H. Owens of the Los Angeles Times art staff from a special military airplane

"Owens, Charles H. Black and white pictorial map, sheet size 14 1/2 x 22 inches, folded as issued to 7 1/4 x 11 inches. Very good condition; light edge wear, small spot upper right of image. 7465th Au Engr. Corozal, Belize. Reprinted 6-1953. 'Mr. Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird's-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting canal zone scenes is the result.' An extremely detailed and absolutely fascinating bird's eye view map of the Panama Canal area, with many inset details of the workings of the canal and local sights. Clearly the accuracy of the map was deemed an important selling point as the endorsement from George W. Goethals the Consulting Engineer on the Canal suggests." -oldimprints.com

Cathédrale du Souvenir - Haiti-Département de l'Artibonite, ville des Gonaïves

"GonaÏves provient du mot indien : GonaÏbo. Le 1er Janvier 1804, le Général en Chef de l'Armée Indigène, Jean Jacques Dessalines, proclama l'Indépendance d'Haïti dans cette ville. La Cathédrale du Souvenir conçue par l'architecte Franck Jeanton y fut érigée à l'occasion du 150ème anniversaire de l'Indépendance d'HaÏti." - Verso

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