U.S.S. OHIO passing Cucaracha Slide on Panama Cnaal, looking north – 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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. OHIO passing Cucaracha Slide on Panama Cnaal, looking north in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. OHIO passing Cucaracha Slide on Panama Cnaal, looking north
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The photograph shows the battleship USS Ohio steaming through the Panama Canal at the Cucaracha Slide, a stretch of the Culebra Cut where unstable hillsides repeatedly slid into the channel during construction. The cut was the canal's most difficult excavation, and the slides there kept engineers busy long after the waterway opened to traffic in 1914. Passing a dreadnought-era warship through such a narrow, shifting passage was a demonstration of the canal's usefulness to the U.S. Navy, which needed to move ships between the Atlantic and Pacific without sailing around South America.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1915 July 16. |
| Subjects | cf. America's Yesterdays, p. 48. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Tugboats; Ships, USS--OHIO; Panama Canal. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138466 |
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