John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook
name: label: Creator
content: Little, M. Ruth
label: Creator
content: Little, John Frances
place: label: Place
content: Panama Canal (Panama)
topic: label: Topic
content: Canal construction workers
label: Topic
content: Canals -- Design and construction
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The scrapbook was donated to the Archives Center by M. Ruth Little, wife of John Frances Little, who inherited the scrapbook.
creator: label: Creator
content: Little, M. Ruth
label: Creator
content: Little, John Frances
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Frances Little inherited this scrapbook from his uncle, who worked on the Canal and presumably took the pictures and compiled the scrapbook.  (The 20 some smaller photographs in the back of the envelope are apparently his personal snapshots -- it is unclear whether he took the others.) His name is unknown.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907-1914
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0708
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Jennifer Synder, 2002.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 82 photographs glued to pages in a scrapbook documenting the building of the Panama Canal.  Subjects of the photographs include the workers, the worksite, equipment (steamshovels, trains, tools), the camp, building interiors and exteriors, and the local terrain.  Locations include: Cucaracha; Culebra Cut; Cunette; Village of Tabernilla, C.Z.; Hodges Hill; Empire West and East Banks; Gold Hill; Contractor=s Hill; and Corozal.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the Archives Center

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