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Pedro Miguel Locks, east chamber, looking north, Panama Canal – Historic Reproduction

Pedro Miguel Locks, east chamber, looking north, Panama Canal, c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Pedro Miguel Locks, east chamber, looking north, Panama Canal, c[between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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: Pedro Miguel Locks, east chamber, looking north, Panama Canal, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Pedro Miguel Locks, east chamber, looking north, Panama Canal

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A steamship labeled *Panama of New York* appears in one of the east chambers of the Pedro Miguel Locks, photographed looking north along the canal. The locks lifted and lowered vessels roughly 31 feet between the Culebra Cut and the Miraflores basin, and they were among the key works that opened the Panama Canal to traffic in 1914. This large glass dry plate negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented scenery and engineering across the United States and abroad around 1900 to 1920. Its date is recorded only as sometime between 1910 and 1920, placing it in the final years of construction or the first years of canal operation.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesPanama of New York" on steamship. "30" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073310. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsShips. Locks (Hydraulic engineering)Panama--Panama Canal.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74183

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