Dwellings Erected for Employees of Old French Canal Company, Colon, Isthmus of Panama

Permanent Link:

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00015215/00001

Material Information

Title:

Dwellings Erected for Employees of Old French Canal Company, Colon, Isthmus of Panama

Physical Description:

Photograph

Donor:

Angrick, Bill ( donor )

Publisher:

Keystone View Company

Place of Publication:

Meadville, PA

Publication Date:

1910s

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Palms   ( fast )
Housing   ( fast )
Streets   ( fast )
Carriages and carts   ( fast )

Genre:

stereograph

Spatial Coverage:

Panama -- Central America -- Panama Canal Zone

Notes

Abstract:

A view of dwellings constructed by the French to house their workers during the country's attempt to construct the Panama Canal.

Scope and Content:

B. L. Singley founded The Keystone View Company in 1892 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The company quickly became the world's largest view company, having at least 250,000 negatives (of which some 50,000 were available as numbered views) by the 1930s. These images were meant to bring international experiences into the palm of the average person's hand, to be revisted in private or during social gatherings. It has been said that the ability of the stereograph to bring vicarious experiences to faraway people makes this medium parallel to the internet or television today. The Keystone View Company also focused on the educational value of their products, employing teams of people to write explanatory texts that were printed on the backs of the stereograph cards. This text, along with the imagery, presents the dominant vision of American ideals and interests during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Source 1: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft1q2n999m/ Source 2: http://www.yellowstonestereoviews.com/publishers/keystone.html

Donation:

Gifted on behalf of William P. and Barbara L. Angrick

Record Information

Source Institution:

University of Florida

Holding Location:

Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida

Rights Management:

Public Domain Presumed (e.g. expiry of copyright term): This item is presumed to be in the public domain. The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries respect the intellectual property rights of others and do not claim any copyright interest in this item. Users of this work have responsibility for determining copyright status prior to reusing, publishing or reproducing this item for purposes other than what is allowed by fair use or other copyright exemptions. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.

Resource Identifier:

accession number - 2013.2.94

System ID:

AA00015215:00001