Native houses at Cruces, Canal Zone – Historic 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: Native houses at Cruces, Canal Zone, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Native houses at Cruces, Canal Zone
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The caption names the Native houses at Cruces, a riverside settlement on the Chagres River in what was then the Canal Zone. Cruces had long been a stopping point on the old colonial trail toward Panama City, and by about 1908 it lay in the area where American engineers were building the canal. The print was copyrighted by William J. Ewen of Hammond, Indiana, a commercial photoprint publisher who sold views of the canal and its surroundings to a broad public. The record notes that its details come from an unverified caption card, so the exact identity of the people and houses shown should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | c1908 May 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | H111159 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by William J. Ewen, Hammond, Indiana. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Dwellings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,079 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148653 |
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