Panama Gallery

Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama Canal

The Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project, also bearing full statistics including length, width and cost of the project. Likely to date from the opening of the canal in 1914. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

A tight squeeze. The USS Saratoga (CV-3) the US Navy s largest ship, and the

A tight squeeze.
The USS Saratoga (CV-3) the US Navys largest ship, and the largest aeroplane carrier in the world, the largest ship ever to go through the Panama Canal.
29 February 1928

© TopFoto.co.uk

1920s, 20th Century, Between The Wars, Black And White, Central News, Europeana Photography, Monochrome, Ship Shipping, Twentieth Century

Phragmites australis (Cav.), common reed

A herbarium sheet containing Phragmites australis (Cav.), a common reed which grows in wetlands throughout the America, Europe and parts of Asia. This specimen is from Panama

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10713880

Andres, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Animals, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Caribbean, Commelinid, Common, Common Reed, Crab, Crustacea, Crustacean, De Voys, Decapod, Decapoda, Flowering Plant, Herbarium, Invertebrata, Invertebrate, Magnoliophyta, Malacostraca, Monocot, Monocotyledon, Nicholas, Nicholas De Voys, Phragmites, Phragmites Australis, Plant, Poaceae