Antique Map Article & Photos of the Early Panama Canal @ Completion/1910/Hammond

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Antique Map Article & Photos of the Early Panama Canal at Completion/1910
Nowadays we take the Panama Canal for granted, but when this map was made it had just been completed, and it was a BFD, because finally ships could go from the Atlantic to the Pacific without the horrendous trip around the Horn. It saved ships thousands of miles, dozens of days and hundreds of shipwrecks. France started it, but yellow fever was wiping out their labor force about every sixty days, and they eventually surrendered to the cost overruns and the deadly fever and quit the project halfway through. With the power of the presidency behind him, Theodore Roosevelt gather the will, the resources and the medical talent (in the person of Dr. Walter Reed) to push the canal through to completion and make it an American possession. In the process, he also created a nation. Panama had been part of Colombia until we took it away from them. Fresh off the victory against Spain and the theft of Cuba and the Philippines, we were just starting to swing our big American d**k at the beginning of the American Empire. If Teddy only knew what he'd helped along, and where it would go.
This is a great antique map and accompanying narrative about the biggest deal to happen to ocean navigation in 500 years. The map is a two page (attached) one piece 20 by 13 inch representation of the completed canal. It's in good condition. Although the map is one piece, you can still see in the middle of it where the paper was folded into the quire. It will flatten out well but still be visible under glass. I tried it.
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