The Road to Panama
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.21
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
setName: label: See more items in
content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (78 minutes, color silent; 2,813 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel from southern United States to Panama. Scenes include: San Antonio, Texas and the Alamo; Mexico (Teotihuacan, Mexico City, Veracruz, and Puebla); Guatemala (Quetzaltenango, a market, Chichicastenango, Antigua, Guatemala City, and Quirigua); El Salvador (College of Saint Cecilia, San Salvador, Ilobasco, Lake Ilopoango, San Vicente Sisal plantation, and a village fiesta); Honduras; Managua, Nicaragua; Costa Rica (San Jose, Calderon Munoz housing project, local school, Irazu volcano, Turialba, coffee drying, and woodworking); and Panama (Panama City and the canal).

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, script, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Tourism ; Cities and towns ; Historic sites ; Marketplaces ; Volcanoes ; Coffee Processing ; Woodwork ; Railroad tracks ; Artisans