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Views on the Isthmus
95.R.20
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Special Collections
Title: Views on the Isthmus album
Identifier/Call Number: 95.R.20
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(21 photographs)
Date (inclusive): circa 1870
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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.
Language of Material: The material is in English
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Processed in 1996 by Beth Ann Guynn who wrote the finding aid in 2016.
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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The views in the album were taken by an unidentified amateur photographer.
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views on the Isthmus, circa 1870.
The album was acquired in 1995.
The collection was digitized by the repository and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/95r20
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama, Isthmus of (Panama) -- Description and travel
Panama (Panama) -- Description and travel
Panama -- Description and travel
Photographs, Original
Photograph albums -- Panama -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Panama -- 19th century
Colón (Panama) -- Description and travel