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Panama Canal (Panama)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Caribbean and Latin American postcard collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 2020
Abstract:

This collection consists of postcards and photos from 1890 to 1920 from countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Madeira. It also includes a small number of postcards depicting Gibraltar, photographs of the building of the Panama Canal, and artistic postcards from Chile published in 1984.

Dates: 1890-1984
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Caribbean and Latin American postcard collection

William Glover Fletcher papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 952
Abstract:

Correspondence and research material on the Panama Canal gathered by William Glover Fletcher presumably in connection with his Ph.D. dissertation: Canal Site Diplomacy: A Study in American Political Geography (Yale University, 1940). His single correspondent is Philippe Bunau-Varilla, whose study on the founding of Panama is also included in the papers.

Dates: 1903-1938
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > William Glover Fletcher papers

William Bayard Hale papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 814
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, memorabilia, scrapbooks and printed matter chiefly concentrated in the years 1910-1923. The correspondence includes photocopies of thirteen letters from Woodrow Wilson to Hale (1911-1915) discussing various aspects of United States foreign policy. Between 1913 and 1914, Hale travelled in Central America as Woodrow Wilson's special emissary to Mexico and then to Nicaragua. His letters to his wife during this period describe the political upheavals in those countries...
Dates: 1888-1962
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > William Bayard Hale papers

Sir Edward Thornton correspondence with the British Foreign Office

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 864
Abstract: The papers are comprised of more than 2,500 original autograph manuscript letters and dispatches received by Sir Edward Thornton, and manuscript copies of Thornton's outgoing official and private correspondence and dispatches, in the period following the American Civil War. Thornton's correspondence was with several important figures in British foreign policy including foreign secretaries Edward Henry Stanley, George William Frederick Villiers, and George Leveson-Gower. Hundreds of other...
Dates: 1868-1875
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sir Edward Thornton correspondence with the British Foreign Office