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  • The Isthmian Canal Commission (I.C.C.) Hotel, Culebra, Panama Canal Zone. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Panama Canal Zone administration building, Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Panama Canal Zone: large 'mosquito-proofed' houses with screened porches. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Agua Clara Reservoir, Gatun: part of the Panama Canal Zone waterworks. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ancon, Panama Canal Zone: a mosquito oil plant interior showing rows of barrels. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama Canal Zone: the Tivoli Hotel in the distance. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Ancon, Panama Canal Zone: a French house with a screened-in porch. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Toro Point, Panama Canal Zone: a muddy drain with dense vegetation on either side. Photograph, 1911.
  • The Panama Canal Zone chief engineer's residence (right), administration building (centre), and staff quarters (left), Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: a West Indian man sprays larvicide into a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: rising smoke as two West Indian men burn grass away from the side of a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Mounds of horse-manure coated with sand and oil to prevent fly breeding, with Western (British?) men in military dress, Suez Canal Zone, Egypt (?). Photograph, ca. 1914.
  • Suez (?) Canal Zone, Egypt (?): lion and crocodile 'sculptures' made from earth and found materials by soldiers on a First World War (?) military camp. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Alchemy: a furnace with nested vessels inside, and a sketch of another similar furnace. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Alchemy: a double furnace with a glass vessel connected to it. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Alchemy: a furnace with some parts removed (?) Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.