From the Stacks: President William Howard Taft
This photograph is from 27th President of the United States William Howard Taft’s visit to the Canal Zone. Check out the Library of Congress website for videos of Taft’s visit: https://www.loc.gov/item/mp76000111/. This website suggests that the visit was in 1910 and that he spent much of the visit inspecting canal construction.
Do you know where in the Canal Zone this picture might be from? Can you remember any other political figures visiting the Canal Zone?
Make sure to join us for the 2018 Panama Canal Society Reunion in Orlando from June 27 – July 1, 2018, where there will be an exhibit about popular culture in the Panama Canal Zone on display. See more information and register here: https://www.pancanalsociety.org/reunion.html. We hope to see you there!
4 Comments
Bob Dillon
Gatun Locks 1910
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/president-william-howard-taft-walks-down-stairs-during-a-news-photo/615316146#president-william-howard-taft-walks-down-stairs-during-a-tour-of-the-picture-id615316146
Bob Dillon
I may have spoken too soon. There is a better chance that this is Miraflores Locks and not Gatun…Same visit though. Probably the same day. Same clothes, same people. It’s late. Someone needs to do some reading of his itinerary. The guy in the weird hat and uniform must be the guy from Peru. Just a guess. (dark uniform to the right, the picture on this page)
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03020/Panama_Canal_5_3020743c.jpg
Bob Dillon
Great pictures of Taft in the CZ including one at Miraflores.
https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2443899&page=2
Bob Dillon
OMG! Found theses great shots from home, construction and such…
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/One-of-the-mammoth-floating-dredges-abandoned-by-the-French-in-1895-Being-made-of-more_fig8_269204107?_sg=myus_96FUjfE176KNWdGyBGWK0_HStsLqthYy8-yVBa5mSp3Bml-A0eUawHo83kV7pcB_foQ009mBm-iF2DgCg
Remember the word “Parbuckling” from that cruise ship in Italy? That’s what they’re doing to this dredge.
I’m coming back to this site (the link) to spend a few hours. They keep finding more pictures. This is great.