[Photograph Album Containing Over 160 Photographs of a Journey to Jamaica, Panama and the Canal Zone in 1913] by [Panama] - 1913

Panama; Jamaica; New York, 1913. Good plus.. 165 original silver gelatin photographs, each 3 x 4 inches. Quarto. Black cloth album, lettered in silver. Leaves brittle; approximately first half of leaves detached, others with tears and chips. Light yellowing to a few photographs, but images over all clear and sharp. Many photos captioned in pencil in the margin, almost all captioned in pen on the reverse. A large and attractive collection of photographs documenting a voyage from New York to Panama, with a stop in Jamaica, in 1913. The first twelve photos show the ship journey from New York to Jamaica, and the next twenty-one document a short time spent in Jamaica, with images of the coast and a car trip into the interior, including several shots of locals and villages. Over 130 photographs document the trip through Panama. The travelers arrived in Colon while the Canal was in the final phases of its construction. As a result, the first portion of the Panama photos show nearly completed locks and dams, as well as dredging and other construction equipment. The group travelled across the Canal Zone to Panama City, and a second part of the photographs comprise well-composed images of street scenes, architecture, native Panamanians, and the surrounding setting. The final significant series of photographs documents their travel in the interior, with many shots of natives and their villages, and a number of photographs of the Culebra Cut and the construction surrounding it. The final half dozen images show the group on board the ship returning to New York. A comprehensive photo document of a voyage to Panama just prior to the opening of the Canal.