ResearchGuides: Panama Canal Resources: Pre-Canal History

Materials in the Collections

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A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America by Lionel Wafer; George Parker Winship (Editor)
Call Number: F1564 .W13 2004
Reprinted from the original edition of 1699
Compendio de historia de Panamá : edición facsímil de la de 1911 con un estudio preliminar de Carlos Manuel Gasteazoro / Juan B. Sosa y Enrique J. Arce. by Juan Bauptisa Sosa and Enrique J. Arce
Call Number: F1566.5 .S67 1977
Original published in 1911
Prehistory of Panamá Viejo. Anthropological Papers. No. 68. by Leo P. Biese
Call Number: Government Documents. SI2.3:191
Publication Date: 1964
Bound in: Smithsonian Institute. Bulletin 191 of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. Anthropological Papers No. 68-74. Additional papers in this volume:

No. 72. Archeological notes on Almirante Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama. by Matthew W. and Marion Stirling.

No. 73. The archeology of Tabago, Urabá, and Tabaguilla Inslands, Panama. by Mathew and Marion Stirling.
Material culture of the people of southeastern Panama, based on specimens in the United States National Museum by Herbert W. Krieger
Call Number: Government Documents. SI 3.3:134
Publication Date: 1926
Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Bulletin 134.

Photographs from the A. B. Nichols Panama Collection

Ruins at Porto Bello. Inside old Spanish fort. A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection. Photo Album Number 3.

Native Residents in Front of Thatched Huts. A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection. Photo Album Number 1.

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