Nicaragua Canal Construction Company records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Canal record; Surveys; Periodicals; Waterways; Rivers; Canals; Canal Zone
Description: Chiefly survey notebooks kept during expeditions in Nicaragua by hydrographic and topographic survey teams investigating the nature, depth, and suitability of the rivers and waterways of Nicaragua for purposes of a canal.  Also includes issues, 1911-1913, of the Canal Record, a newspaper published by the American administration of the Panama Canal Zone.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Chase Safe Deposit Company, New York, N.Y., 1951.

Exchange, Dartmouth College, 1944.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

A corporate enterprise formed in 1886 to build the first trans-Isthmian canal across Central America.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.