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[McEwen Bros. album of Panama photographs].
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Title:
[McEwen Bros. album of Panama photographs]Creator/Contributor:
McEwen Bros. (San Francisco), creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly snapshots of various subjects in Panama, including agriculture, Panama Canal, Panama City, business associates, friends
and/or family members, pets. One photograph includes caption refering to "our property", and McEwens are assumedly among those
depicted throughout album. Also depicted is a Glenn W. Miller. Postcards depict various aspects of construction of Panama
Canal.
Date:
1913 (issued)Subject:
ncpn---Panama -- Pictorial works
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Pictorial works
Canal Zone -- Pictorial works
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Zone du canal de Panamá -- Ouvrages illustrés
Canal Zone
Panama
Panama -- Panama Canal
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Several photographs bear hand-written captions.
Includes 8 hand-colored commercial postcards.
Written inside front cover: Property of McEwen Bros., San Francisco.
Purchase ; 2015.
McEwen Bros. real estate firm appears in various San Francisco directories of first two decades of 20th century.
Preferred citation: McEwen Bros. album of Panama photographs, BANC PIC 2016.012, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Postcards.
Physical Description:
photoprint
Approximately 85 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; album 19 x 31 cm
Language:
English