| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Panama and the canal in picture and prose: a complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal--the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time
| | | | Creator: | Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934 | | | | Publication: | Syndicate Publishing Co, London, New York,1913. | | | | Notes: | "500 copies...printed...Number 35. | | | | Call #: | F1564 A128a | | | | Extent: | 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Panama -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Panama in 1855: An account of the Panama rail-road, of the cities of Panama and Aspinwall, with sketches of life and character on the Isthmus
| | | | Creator: | Tomes, Robert, 1817-1882 | | | | Publication: | Harper & brothers, New York,1855. | | | | Call #: | F1564 T65 | | | | Extent: | 3 p. l., [13]-246 p. incl. illus., port., map. front., pl. 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Panama -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Illustrated South America: a Chicago publisher's travels and investigations in the republics of South America, with 500 photographs of people and scenes from the Isthmus of Panama to the Straits of Magellan
| | | | Creator: | Boyce, William Dickson, 1848-1929 | | | | Publication: | Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago, New York,[c1912] | | | | Call #: | B 4023 | | | | Extent: | 1 p. l., vii-xv, 638 p. front., illus., double maps 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | South America -- Description and travel | Panama -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | Panamâa y el canal: con ciento cuarenta y una ilustraciones
| | | | Creator: | Hall, Alfred B. (Alfred Bates), 1875-1936 | | | | | Chester, Clarence Lyon, 1877- | | | | | Cortina, R. Diez de la (Rafael Diez de la), 1859- | | | | Publication: | Newson and Co, Nueva York,c1913. | | | | Call #: | F1564 H174 P1 | | | | Extent: | xv, 237 p. front., ill., maps ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Panama -- Description and travel | Panama Canal (Panama) | Panama -- History
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 13 | Title: | A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America
| | | | Creator: | Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705? | | | | | Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952 | | | | Publication: | The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland,1903. | | | | Notes: | Includes facsimile of original title-page. "Of this edition, five hundred copies have been printed, and the type distributed." This copy not numbered. | | | | Call #: | F1564 W128 | | | | Extent: | 212 p. front., pl., fold. maps. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of Central America -- Panama | Natural history -- Panama | Panama -- Description and travel | Cleveland imprints 1903
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | John Harris Forster: field notes of a surveyor in Panama and California, 1849
| | | | Creator: | Forster, John Harris, 1822-1894 | | | | | Weideman, Christine. | | | | Publication: | Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.],c1989. | | | | Call #: | Pam. F512 | | | | Extent: | 45 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Forster, John Harris, -- 1822-1894 -- Journeys -- California | Forster, John Harris, -- 1822-1894 -- Journeys -- Panama | California -- Description and travel | Panama -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 17 | Title: | California and Oregon: or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818 | | | | | Thurston, Samuel Royal, 1816-1851 | | | | Publication: | Lippincott, Grambo & Co., successors to Grigg, Elliot & Co, Philadelphia,1851. | | | | Notes: | Cf. Sabin 36329. First edition, New York, 1849, published under title: Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. | | | | Call #: | B 8065 | | | | Extent: | xii, 348 p. fold. map, 6 plates. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Gold discoveries | California -- Description and travel | Panama -- Description and travel | Oregon -- Description and travel
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 18 | Title: | Erastus Fitch Merwin Journal
| | | | Creator: | Merwin, Erastus Fitch | | | | Dates: | 1854-1862 | | | | Abstract: | Erastus Fitch Merwin was a resident of Braceville, Trumbull County, Ohio, who sailed to Panama in 1854, traveled across Panama on a mule train, then sailed on to San Francisco, with a brief stop in Acapulco. He eventually settled in Nevada, but returned to Ohio after eight years. In 1863 he joined the 2nd Ohio Cavalry and was captured and died in a Confederate prison at Salisbury, N.C. in 1864. Merwin's journal details his trip westward and back east, describing the places he visited, his accommodations, fellow passengers, the natives of Mexico, and such events as a military altercation between Santa Ana and Republican forces in Acapulco, a shipboard murder-suicide, and other occurrences. | | | | Call #: | MS 4471 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Merwin, Erastus Fitch, 1829-1864 -- Diaries. | Journeys to the Pacific. | Panama -- Description and travel. | Mexico -- Description and travel. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- 1848-1860.
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