The United States Fleet in Colon Harbor, Atlantic Entrance to the Panama Canal – Historic Print
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A window into the past: The United States Fleet in Colon Harbor, Atlantic Entrance to the Panama Canal, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The United States Fleet in Colon Harbor, Atlantic Entrance to the Panama Canal
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The United States Fleet anchored in Colón Harbor, at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, marks a moment when American naval power was being openly projected into the Caribbean. The fleet's visit to the Colón anchorage came during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, a period when he championed a larger navy and pushed hard for the canal itself. Roosevelt sent the battleships on a cruise to the Pacific, a move that drew the Pacific and Atlantic squadrons together and signaled to the world that the United States intended to guard the waterway it was building. The view of gray-hulled warships riding at anchor above the harbor makes that ambition easy to see.
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,359 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PANAMA 1924 US fleet in Colon Harbor |
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