TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY D U R T N G C o N s T R U C T 1 o N THE PANAMA CANAL - THE PANAMA CANAL D U R I N G C O N S T R U C T I O N F R O M Photogº PHS By E D IT H Hºt R A C Y 2. 19 13 PRICE, $1.00 NET REDFIELD BROTHERS, INC. NEW YORK C O N T ENTS . Hospital Grounds at Colon . East Chamber Gatun Locks - Rivettin Transportation g g Library . South end of Gatun Locks * . The Spillway TC. . Floating Islands 7~14 . Canal from Gamboa Bridge + - . The Cut at Empire • * : Up . Drilling . Steam Shovel . Ramming Dynamite . Steam Shovel in Cut at Empire . Looking South from under Empire Suspension Bridge . Culebra Slide and Cut Looking North . View, South from Culebra Slide . Top of Cut at Culebra . French Cars. . Cut from the Railroad Bridge . Guard Gates, Pedro Miguel . View from South end Pedro Miguel . East Chamber Miraflores . Big Gates . View from South end Miraflores Locks . Fortified Islands . Royal Palms . Panama Street . Fishing Boats . Ruins of Old Panama . Chagres River . Mouth of Chagres River Fifty other views may be obtained from me in sizes 628 or 112:14, also lantern slides plain or colored. Address, 604 West 112th Street, New York City. Copyright by Edith H. Tracy, 1914 s s ROM a large number of photo- F. which I took at Panama, I have selected thirty which show the Canal during probably the most interest- ing stages of its construction. Pict- ures showing the work at completion are purposely omitted, since they can be taken by any one at any time. To Mr. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Secre- tary of the Isthmian Canal Commission my grateful thanks are due for his cordial interest and his assistance in enabling me to secure the photographs. For courtesy and helpfulness my thanks are also due to every worker on the Canal, white or black, with whom I came in COntact. 2, #4, Z2. New York, March 8, 1914 Nu m be r 0 m e VIEW in the Hospital Grounds at Colon. This shows what a strong wind blows almost constantly from December to April, the dry S628 SOIl. º --- N u m be r Two AST Chamber of Gatun Locks, showing holes in the lock floor through which the water comes to fill the cham- ber. The lock chambers are 1000 feet long 110 feet wide and 82 feet high. （~~~~ ！|-|- ſae ， ， ！ N u m be r Three PORTION of the huge gates showing the riv- etting of the steel plates. There are 41,000 rivets in each large gate. N u m be r F O u r HE South end of the East chamber of Gatun Locks showing the emergency dam and chain. This fender chain is lowered for a ship to pass, and raised afterwards. If a 10,000 ton vessel moving at the rate of four miles an hour strikes the chain it will be brought to a stop within 73 feet, which is less than the distance between the chain and the gate. N u m be r Fi pe THE Spillway in Gatun Dam, the outlet of Gatun Lake into the Chagres River. The level of the lake can be regulated by raising or lower- ing the great gates between the buttresses. N u m be r S ja: LOATING islands in Gat- un Lake. These were formed by grasses and small trees growing on logs in the swamp-land which formed the bed of the lake. When the water rose the logs carrying the vegetation with them rose also and floated around until pushed over the Spillway and thence down the Chagres River to the Sea. Nu m be r S even THE Canal looking north from Gamboa bridge, which crosses the Chagres River at the North end of Culebra Cut. Number Eight THE Cut at Empire. This shows a small slide which occurred in January, 1913. Nu m be r N i me Drilling holes for the dynamite charge on Empire Slide. N u m be r Ten A five ton steam shovel load- ing a train near Empire. Nu m be r Eleven Ramming Dynamite in the Cut at Empire. N u m be r Twelve STEAM Shovel at work in the Cut at Empire. The bottom of the Cut is 150 feet below the suspension bridge. Nu m be r Th i r tee m THE Cut looking South from under Empire sus- pension bridge, about one mile North of the deepest excava- tion at Culebra. Nu m be r Four teen Culebra Slide and Cut look- ing north. Number Fifteen OOKING South from Cul- ebra Slide. This is the point of deepest excavation in Culebra Cut. Gold Hill on the East Bank is 495 feet above the Canal bottom. The top of Contractor’s Hill, shown on the right of the picture, is 364 feet above the bottom of the Canal. Cucaracha Slide is shown on the left. N u m be r S i act ee m THE top of the Cut at Cul- ebra. The white spot in the distance is Pedro Miguel locks, three miles away. N u m be r S eventee m Old French cars left in the fields above Culebra Cut. Nu m be r Eightee m HE Cut from the railroad bridge just above Pedro Miguel Locks. Number N in eteen Guard Gates at Pedro Miguel Locks. Number Twenty IEW from the South end of Pedro Miguel Locks. Miraflores Locks may be seen as white spots in the distance. The intervening space is now occupied by Miraflores Lake, three miles long. -：|-- ： ： *** Nu m be r Twenty-one The East Chamber of Mira- flores Locks looking North. Nu m be r Twenty-two IG Gates under construc- tion. There are forty-six of these in the locks and they vary in height from 47 to 82 feet. Each leaf of the largest gates weigh 790 tons. Nu m be r Twenty-th ree View from South end Miraflores Locks. N u m be r Twenty-four HE Islands of Naos and Perico connected by a breakwater with the main- land. These Islands are to be fortified. Nu m be r Twenty-five - ROYAL palms at Ancon, the United States settle- ment at the Pacific end of the Canal. N u m be r Twenty-sia: A Typical Street in Panama City. Number Twent y - seven Fishing Boats near the Market. Nu m be r Twenty-eight UINS of the monastery and cathedral at old Pan- ama. The city, seven miles from the present city, was destroyed by Morgan in 1671. Number Twenty - m i me Chagres River from Fort Lorenzo. 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