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  • The Panama Canal Zone administration building, Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Isthmian Canal Commission (I.C.C.) Hotel, Culebra, Panama Canal Zone. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC) Sanitarium, Taboga Island, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Panama Canal Zone chief engineer's residence (right), administration building (centre), and staff quarters (left), Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Agua Clara Reservoir, Gatun: part of the Panama Canal Zone waterworks. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal construction works: looking south from east. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Culebra Cut after heavy rain: Panama Canal construction work in progress. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal construction: view of train tracks, looking south from west. Photograph, 1907.
  • The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of the canal, is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Wooden houses in Ancon (?), Panama, built during the Panama Canal construction era. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC) Sanitarium, Taboga Island, Panama, with view of village and beach. 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.
  • 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.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Panama Canal construction workers (American and European) dining in the Isthmian Canal Commission (I.C.C.) hotel, Culebra. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Panama Canal construction workers on arrival at the train station, Gorgona. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama Canal Zone: the Tivoli Hotel in the distance. Photograph, ca. 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.
  • 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, 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, 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: 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: 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.
  • 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.