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  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice discovers that the bank account of the company formed to build the canal is empty. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Panama Canal workers' quarters (West Indian and Panaman) surrounded by palm trees: wooden cottages provided with self-closing dustbins; West Indian resident in foreground. Photograph, 1911.
  • 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.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, having fled France, spends his time fishing in Bournemouth. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: for an enquiry into its financing, a policeman guards a prison-cell in which some of the principals are remanded. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth, reads in a newspaper that he is being sought by the police for his part in the mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, gets on a train to flee France after the collapse of the company. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Louis Lacharme, with a level and with local assistants, clearing a route through dense jungle in Panama for an interoceanic canal. Wood engraving by G. Vuillier.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Colón, Panama: interior of the municipal wash house. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Rio Grande Reservoir, Panama: man in boat in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama: street with wooden buildings lined with palm trees. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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.
  • Open sewers alongside a mud road lined with wooden houses, Caledonia, Panama. Photograph, 1908.
  • An open sewer beneath elevated wooden huts with residents outside, Panama. Photograph, 1908.
  • North Avenue, Panama: newly paved busy street with carriages, residents and workers; lined with large buildings with balconies. Photograph, 1907.
  • Colón, Panama: workers paving a street. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: Cash Alley newly paved. Photograph, 1907.
  • Colón, Panama: unpaved street lined with wooden houses; two children watch from a porch beside the open sewer. 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: unpaved street with wooden houses and palm trees: building debris scattered in foregound; people visible in middle distance. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: newly paved street junction with pedestrians, carriages and train carriages. Photograph, 1906.
  • Colón, Panama: Fourth Street before paving work begins. Photograph, 1906.