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  • 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.
  • Open earth draining of a swamp at Mount Hope; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • Hand-cleared ditch in a grassy field; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • Panama Canal workers' (West Indian and Panaman) quarters: exterior view of wooden huts with resident children in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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.
  • 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 Zone chief engineer's residence (right), administration building (centre), and staff quarters (left), Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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, 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: 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.
  • Panama Canal construction workers (American and European) dining in the Isthmian Canal Commission (I.C.C.) hotel, Culebra. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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 Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal construction: view of train tracks, looking south from west. Photograph, 1907.
  • Panama Canal workers' (European) sleeping quarters: interior showing fold-up bunks. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Colón, Panama: interior of the municipal wash house. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama: street with wooden buildings lined with palm trees. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Panama Canal Zone administration building, Ancon, Panama. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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: 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 Agua Clara Reservoir, Gatun: part of the Panama Canal Zone waterworks. Photograph, 1910.
  • 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.
  • Panama Canal construction workers on arrival at the train station, Gorgona. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal construction works: looking south from east. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama Canal Zone: the Tivoli Hotel in the distance. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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 Culebra Cut after heavy rain: Panama Canal construction work in progress. Photograph, 1910.
  • Wooden houses in Ancon (?), Panama, built during the Panama Canal construction era. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Rio Grande Reservoir, Panama: man in boat in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1910.