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Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 48½ inches and 10 x 34½ inches. Minor edge wear and creasing. Very good. An interesting pair of panoramic photographs relating to the Panama Canal Zone around 1930. The photographs were produced by the prolific panoramist E.O. Goldbeck during one of his many jaunts to record American military installations in exotic locales. One is dated June 1930, but it is reasonable to assume Goldbeck photographed both subjects around the same time, since the Panama Canal Zone is no short trip from San Antonio. The pair of panoramas include: 1) CULEBRA CUT - PANAMA CANAL ZONE. 10 x 48½ inches. A well-composed image showing a steamship rounding a corner of the Culebra Cut, an artificial valley cutting through the Continental Divide in Panama and one of the greatest engineering projects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Begun in 1881 by the French and not finished until 1913 by the United States, the Culebra Cut (known for most of its life as the Gaillard Cut) is an eight-mile-long artificial channel forming part of the Panama Canal. It connects Gatun Lake to the Gulf of Panama, providing a link from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Culebra Cut resulted from the blasting and excavation of the Culebra mountains by 6,000 workers employing hundreds of steam drills and shovels, 60 million pounds of dynamite, and thousands of trains loaded with debris and bound for landfill dumps. The present image captures the awesome scope of the project, completed less than twenty years earlier. 2) FT. AMADOR. C.Z. JUNE 1930. CAPT. R.J. VAN BUSKIRK. COMDG. 10 x 34½ inches. A panoramic photograph featuring Company B of the 65th Air Defense Artillery Regiment of the United States Army. The 65th regiment was active in providing air defense in the Panama Canal Zone from July 1924 to April 1932. Fort Amador was primarily an infantry and artillery support base providing air defense to American merchant ships traveling through the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. The image captures over eighty members of Company B ranged on each side of their trophies and their regimental guidon. A complementary pair of panoramic photographs highlighting the scale of the project in the Culebra Cut and American military interests in the Panama Canal Zone in the interwar period. Seller Inventory # WRCAM55194
Bibliographic Details
Title: [PAIR OF PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE...
Publisher: E.O. Goldbeck, National Photo & News Service, San Antonio
Publication Date: 1930
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