Canal diggers, President Roosevelt, and chief advisers--Taken in front of Chief Engineer Steven's resident at Culebra, during his visit November 1906 – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Canal diggers, President Roosevelt, and chief advisers--Taken in front of Chief Engineer Steven's resident at Culebra, during his visit November 1906, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Canal diggers, President Roosevelt, and chief advisers--Taken in front of Chief Engineer Steven's resident at Culebra, during his visit November 1906
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Taken in front of Chief Engineer Stevens's residence at Culebra, this group portrait shows Theodore Roosevelt with the canal builders he came to inspect in November 1906. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to travel outside the United States, and the visit was meant to show his personal commitment to the Panama Canal while excavation through the Culebra Cut was at its most difficult. A. Bienkowski made the photograph in Ancon, and it survives as a halftone print, a method that let newspapers and magazines reproduce such images in quantity.
| Created / published | Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama : A. Bienkowski, 1906 November. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Group portraits 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,304 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-200200 |
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