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  • Colón, Panama: workers paving a street. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: Cash Alley newly paved. Photograph, 1907.
  • Colón, Panama: Bolivar Street newly paved. Photograph, ca. 1908.
  • Colón, Panama: interior of the municipal wash house. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama; street with building works in progress. Photograph, 1907.
  • Colón, Panama: Fourth Street before paving work begins. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: newly paved street junction with pedestrians, carriages and train carriages. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama, before the sanitary works that were implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal: a ditch runs down the centre of a street lined with wooden houses. Photograph, 1908.
  • Colón, Panama: unpaved street lined with wooden houses; two children watch from a porch beside the open sewer. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama: unpaved street with wooden houses and palm trees: building debris scattered in foregound; people visible in middle distance. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: tarmacadamed street with storm sewer; residents shown in houses and on the street, with horse and cart in the foreground. Photograph, 1911.
  • Colón, Panama: a ditch runs down the middle of the unpaved street which is lined with wooden houses; a man on horseback is in the foreground. Photograph, 1907.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, simulates illness to avoid extradition to France. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.