Panama fever (40 page)
Authors: Matthew Parker
Tags: #History - General History, #Technology & Engineering, #History, #Central, #Central America, #Americas (North, #Central America - History, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States, #Civil, #Civil Engineering (General), #General, #History: World, #Panama Canal (Panama) - History, #Panama Canal (Panama), #West Indies), #Latin America - Central America, #South, #Latin America
steamer carrying laborers from Barbados arrives at Colón. The tiny island provided the bulk of the thousands of workers for the American Panama Canal effort.
N ICC-run mess kitchen for the West Indian workers. No chairs or tables were provided, and the food was often inedible. After a short time, most workers made their own arrangements.
A fumigation squad, carrying ladders, paper, and paste, assembles in Panama City, 1905.
Doctor William Gorgas near Miraflores.
cemetery on the western slope of Ancón Hill photographed shortly after the completion of the canal.
he energetic and resourceful chief engineer John Stevens, in boater, surveying work along the line.
Emptying spoil cars by means of dragging a metal plow along its surface. Such ingenious devices saved countless man-hours for the American canal effort.
heodore Roosevelt, in white suit, making “a Strenuous Exhibition” on the Isthmus.
