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PANAMA 1936 US Panama Canal Dept – Vintage Wall Art

PANAMA 1936 US Panama Canal Dept — historic image
PANAMA 1936 US Panama Canal Dept. Historic image from the Presidents collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures PANAMA 1936 US Panama Canal Dept in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Labeled as a Panama Canal Department item from 1936, this view shows the Canal Zone while American authorities still administered it. The gallery files it under Theodore Roosevelt, whose administration pushed the canal project forward after Panama separated from Colombia in 1903. Roosevelt died in 1919, so the scene postdates him, but the waterway he championed opened in 1914 and remained a central American installation for decades. The record names no people or activity, so the image is best read as a glimpse of the zone in the 1930s rather than a Roosevelt-era scene.

Original scan5,400 × 888 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferencePANAMA 1936 US Panama Canal Dept

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