Title:

Howard A. Brett collection of Panama Canal materials, 1908-1978

Creator/Contributor:

Brett, Howard A., 1917-2014, creator, creator.

Materials relating mainly to the Panama Canal that appear to have belonged to Howard A. Brett, a steam engineer working in the Locks Division in the Canal Zone. Collection consists of a few printed items, including a copy of On the Canal Zone by Thomas Graham Grier (1908) and a copy of Images of an Age: Panama and the Building of the Canal by Jerome D. Laval (1978). The collection also includes a typescript report (with photographs) entitled Atlantic Locks Overhaul, 1947: Report of Safety Engineer;" a May 1, 1953 issue of the Panama Canal Review newspaper; a booklet entitled Living and Working in the Canal Zone (1951); a few newspaper clippings (including one from 1953 that mentions Howard Brett being fined for falsely presenting an employee privileges card at the Corozal Army Sales Store); a Florida Police Benevolent Association card with Howard A. Brett's name; and some photographs (three of work on the Canal and four that appear to be 1960s group portraits of the San Damiano Retreat in Danville, California.

Date:

1908 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Steam engineers -- Panama -- Panama Canal

Mécaniciens de machines fixes -- Panamá -- Canal de Panamá

Panama Canal (Panama)

Canal de Panamá (Panamá)

Brett, Howard A -- 1917-2014 -- Archives

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Purchase from the Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale; 2022.

Howard A. Brett (1917-2014) worked as a steam engineer in the Locks Division in the Panama Canal Zone. He died in Hayward, California in 2014.

Howard A. Brett collection of Panama Canal materials, BANC MSS 2023/178, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

Type:

photographs.

Photographs.

Photographies.

print

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English

Origin:

California

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.