Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose
by Willis J. Abbot
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About this eBook
- Author
- Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
- Credits
- Richard Hulse, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
- Subject
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 64476
- Release Date
- February 6, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PANAMA And the Canal IN PICTURE AND PROSE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.LIST OF BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER I THE FRONT DOOR TO PANAMA
- 7.CHAPTER II CRISTOBAL-COLON; AND THE PANAMA RAILROAD
- 8.CHAPTER III NOMBRE DE DIOS, PORTO BELLO AND SAN LORENZO
- 9.CHAPTER IV SAN LORENZO AND PANAMA
- 10.CHAPTER V THE SACK OF OLD PANAMA
- 11.CHAPTER VI REVOLUTIONS AND THE FRENCH REGIME
- 12.CHAPTER VII THE UNITED STATES BEGINS WORK
- 13.CHAPTER VIII THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
- 14.CHAPTER IX COL. GOETHALS AT THE THROTTLE
- 15.CHAPTER X GATUN DAM AND LOCKS
- 16.CHAPTER XI GATUN LAKE AND THE CHAGRES RIVER
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE CULEBRA CUT.
- 18.CHAPTER XIII THE CITY OF PANAMA.
- 19.CHAPTER XIV THE SANITATION OF THE ZONE
- 20.CHAPTER XV THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
- 21.CHAPTER XVI THE INDIANS OF PANAMA
- 22.CHAPTER XVII SOCIAL LIFE ON THE CANAL ZONE
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII LABOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ZONE
- 24.CHAPTER XIX FORTIFICATIONS; TOLLS; COMMERCE AND QUARANTINE
- 25.CHAPTER XX DIPLOMACY AND POLITICS OF THE CANAL
- 26.List of Syndicate Publications AT SPECIAL NEWSPAPER PRICES
- 27.Transcriber’s Notes
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