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Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.

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.

Colón, Panama: workers paving a street. Photograph, 1906.

Colón, Panama: Cash Alley newly paved. Photograph, 1907.

The male and female sign with one red hand print against a backdrop of numerous green hand prints with a message about hope; an AIDS prevention advertisement sponsored by numerous health organisations in Panama, the World Health Organisation and GlaxoWellcome. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

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.

A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America / by Lionel Wafer, reprinted from the original edition of 1699 ; edited by George Parker Winship.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Narrative of the proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the provinces of Tierra Firme or Catilla del Oro : and of the discovery of the South Sea and the coasts of Peru and Nicaragua / written by the Adelantado Pascual de Andagoya ; translated and edited, with notes and introduction, by Clements R. Markham.

Nunis / Mischa de Stroumillo.

North Avenue, Panama: newly paved busy street with carriages, residents and workers; lined with large buildings with balconies. Photograph, 1907.

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A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America / by Lionel Wafer, reprinted from the original edition of 1699 ; edited by George Parker Winship.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Nunis / Mischa de Stroumillo.

North Avenue, Panama: newly paved busy street with carriages, residents and workers; lined with large buildings with balconies. Photograph, 1907.