Joe Britton Panama Canal Zone Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Britton, Joe
label: Donor
content: Matheis-Kraft, Carol
place: label: Place
content: Canal Zone
label: Place
content: Panama
label: Place
content: Panama Canal (Panama)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Carol Matheis-Kraft on April 11, 2011.
creator: label: Creator
content: Britton, Joe
label: Donor
content: Matheis-Kraft, Carol
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content: Joe Britton Panama Canal Zone Photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents Panama, the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, the San Blas Islands, military installations in Panama, villages, local buildings, people, flora and fauna, circa 1945.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The slides of Panama, the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, the San Blas Islands, military installations in Panama, villages, local buildings, people, flora and fauna were taken by Private First Class Joe Britton while he was stationed there circa 1945. Joseph Henry Britton was born March 14, 1922 in Midland, Michigan.  Britton served in the Army during World War II in Panama. After the war, he graduated from Albion College and earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Britton taught at the Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University) Health and Human Development School.  His research focused on gerontology.  Britton died on August 17, 2011.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1234
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series in slide number order. 

Series 1: Slides, 1945 and undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, February 2012.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A collection of 110 color slides of Panama, the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, the San Blas Islands, military installations in Panama, villages, local buildings, people, flora and fauna, circa 1945.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Panama Canal Commission Photonegatives, 1903-circa 1939 (AC1116)

Richard Fisher Panama Canal Collection, 1902-1968 (AC1045)

Charles Edwards Wood Panama Canal Photograph Album (AC1114)

Katherine Kingsford Panama Canal Photograph Album, circa 1904-1914 (AC1040)

W.P. Stine Panama Canal Papers, 1904-1911 (AC1039)

W.A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album, 1905-1908 (AC1021)

Robert Dearborn Panama Canal Photonegatives, undated (AC1111)

John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook, 1907-1914 (AC0708)

Underwood and Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, 1895-1921 (AC0143)

Materials at the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Exhibition Records, 1971-2002, "Make the Dirt Fly!: Building the Panama Canal" (SIA Acc. 08-051)

Exhibition Records, 1979-1999,  "Make the Dirt Fly!: Building the Panama Canal" (SIA Acc. 03-089)

Smithsonian Human Studies Film Archives

Reuben Miller's Travel Footage of the Panama Canal circa 1927 [supplied] 93.7.5 circa 1927 (HSFA 93.7.5)

The Panama Canal circa 1962 (HSFA 98.21.9)