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[Panama Canal]: [Photography]
[Original Photograph Album of Concrete Plant
Construction, Panama Canal Zone]
Panama: Nevada Constructors, Inc., [1942]
Oblong 4to. Leather wraps over metal snap ring binder. Twenty linen
backed black-and-white photographs: seventeen 8” x 10” with three
fold-out panoramas. Ink-stamping, writing to versos; occasional
stamping to images, writing to margins outside of image areas. Very
good.
A small but engaging album of photographs documenting the construction
of aggregate processing facilities along the Chagres River in
the Miraflores and Gamboa areas of the Panama Canal Zone in 1942,
including a magnificent nine-panel panorama measuring over four feet
in length (detail, above). The uncredited photographs were commissioned
by the Nevada Constructors Company, and capture the building
of plants to provide materials for the construction of additional
locks for the Panama Canal. Crisp views of construction progress include:
steel erection, concrete placement, a massive Hercules dredging
crane (right), etc. An impressive production.
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