Views on the Isthmus album, circa 1870

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Summary

Abstract:
The album Views on the Isthmus contains 21 views, taken by an unknown photographer, of the Isthmus of Panama along the route of the Panama Railroad, roughly in the area where the Panama Canal was eventually built. Included are views of Aspinwall (Colón), the northwest terminus of the railroad and western entrance of the canal; the stations along the railroad; and Panama City, the southern railroad terminus and canal entrance.
Extent:
1 album(s) (21 photographs)
Language:
The material is in English
Preferred citation:

Views on the Isthmus, circa 1870, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 95.R.20.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa95r20

Background

Scope and content:

The album contains 21 albumen photographs, taken by an unknown photographer around 1870, of the Isthmus of Panama along the route of the Panama Railroad, roughly in the area where the Panama Canal was eventually built. Included are views of Aspinwall (Colón), the northwest terminus of the railroad and western entrance of the canal; the stations along the railroad; and Panama City, the southern railroad terminus and canal entrance.

The album is bound in brown leather and closes with a silver metal clasp on its foredge. The title is written on the verso of the free front endpaper: Views on the Isthmus. The inital "V" is in the shape of a palm tree.

The photographs are only on the recto pages. Image titles are hand-printed in English in ink, watercolor and pencil with decorative capitals and floral elements on the mounts below the images. From the twelfth image onward the titles and decorations are only penciled in. There are four blank pages at the end of the album.

Biographical / historical:

The views in the album were taken by an unidentified amateur photographer.

Acquisition information:
The album was acquired in 1995.
Processing information:

Processed in 1996 by Beth Ann Guynn who wrote the finding aid in 2016.

Arrangement:

Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views on the Isthmus, circa 1870.

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Preferred citation:

Views on the Isthmus, circa 1870, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 95.R.20.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa95r20

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