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75th Anniversary “Honoring the Past by Building the Future”
Our last anniversary we are celebrating this week is 75 years of the Panama Canal with this commemorative album. This copy can be accessed in our Digital Collection if you wish to read more!
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50th Anniversary- Tivoli
The next anniversary we want to celebrate is the 50th anniversary of the Tivoli Hotel!
What memories can you tell us about your time at the Tivoli?
Please share with us in the comments section below!
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50th Anniversary Canal Zone Pilots
Our next anniversary item for this week is showcasing the 50th Anniversary of the Canal Zone Pilots!
From the completion of the canal in 1914 to 1964, this document, by A.L. Guinn, names every Canal Zone pilot by year.In our Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, we have a conversation with Albert Wilder where he talks about the Canal Zone pilots in depth. If you are interested in listening to this oral history, follow the link below!
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00013354
What can you guys share with us about the Canal Zone pilots?
Please share with us in the comments section below!
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Panama Canal 25th anniversary
This publication highlights the 25th anniversary of the Panama Canal. In its first few pages it states as follows:
“Dedicated to the builders of the Panama Canal, who in bringing the great task to a successful conclusion, justified the glowing tribute paid to them by President Theodore Roosevelt during his inspection of the canal construction in 1906 before the success of the venture had been assured, when he said”
The issue covers the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, to the life of the Americans who moved to Panama, to a historical calendar and many more topics in its twenty chapters.
If you wish to read more about this publication, view it in the Digital Collection.
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1914-1925 Society of the Chagres
Starting off our anniversary week is the Society of the Chagres! Colonel Goethals suggested the idea for the Roosevelt medal to award employees for ever two years employed. The Society of the Chagres developed as a result of the medal.
One of our items digitized into the Digital Collections here at UF is the yearbooks for the Society. We have six volumes digitized from 1911-1917. If you are interested to learn more about the Society through its yearbooks, follow this link to read the yearbooks!
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00013083/00001/allvolumes
We want to know more about the Society of the Chagres.Did you have family members who were a part of it? Can you recognize anyone in these two photos?
Do you know what they might have done in these annual outings?
Please share with us in the comments section below!
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Commemorating the Panama Canal Centennial
With eleven days until we celebrate 100 years of the Panama Canal, we want to take these next two weeks leading up to the Centennial to commemorate the Panama Canal!
This following week we are highlighting anniversaries ranging from The Society of the Chagres to the Tivoli. The week of the Centennial Celebration we are going to focus on some key points in the early history of the Panama Canal up until the SS Ancon going through the canal on August 15, 1914.
Please join us on the blog to commemorate the Panama Canal Centennial celebration!
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West Indian group outside of tent
Unfortunately, we do not have any extra information on this photograph. Please help us add more to this objects record!
Where and when might this photograph have been taken?
Were tent settlements common within the Canal Zone?
Please share with us in the comments section below!
