The S.S. PANAMA in Culebra Cut on Sunday, Feb. 7, 1914 - the first excursion to go through the Panama Canal – Antique 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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Step back in time with The S.S. PANAMA in Culebra Cut on Sunday, Feb. 7, 1914 - the first excursion to go through the Panama Canal, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The S.S. PANAMA in Culebra Cut on Sunday, Feb. 7, 1914 - the first excursion to go through the Panama Canal
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The S.S. Panama is shown steaming through the Culebra Cut on Sunday, February 7, 1914, the day of the first excursion through the Panama Canal. The Culebra Cut, later renamed the Gaillard Cut, was the most difficult stretch of the waterway, sliced through the continental divide with steep rock walls on either side. The canal did not open to commercial shipping until August 1914, so this passenger trip came months earlier. Keystone View Company issued the image as a stereograph, a pair of side-by-side photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The card's date of about 1915 is likely its publication date rather than the day the photograph was taken.
| Created / published | c1915 March 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J201300 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 21771. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ships; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 817 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148690 |
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