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Roger-Viollet | 799772 | The American fleet. Panama Canal. 1914. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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The American fleet. Panama Canal. 1914.
Roger-Viollet | 953379 | The American cruiser  Denver  which was the first to cross the Panama Canal. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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The American cruiser "Denver" which was the first to cross the Panama Canal.
Roger-Viollet | 549729 | Canal de Panamá. Deux navires de guerre américains passant en même temps l'écluse de Pedro Miguel. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panamá. Deux navires de guerre américains passant en même temps l'écluse de Pedro Miguel. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 728227 | Le bâtiment de l'administration américaine du canal et ses gardes à Balboa. Canal de Panamá. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Le bâtiment de l'administration américaine du canal et ses gardes à Balboa. Canal de Panamá. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 927678 | Canal de Panamá. Navire de guerre américain dans le seuil de la Culebra. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panamá. Navire de guerre américain dans le seuil de la Culebra. 1919-1920.
 
Roger-Viollet | 587571 | Australian troops returning from France at the end of the World War I, greeted by US soldiers at the Gatun Lock. Panama Canal, 1919-20. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Australian troops returning from France at the end of the World War I, greeted by US soldiers at [...]
Roger-Viollet | 516455 | American troops parading in Gatun, near the Panama Canal. 1919-20. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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American troops parading in Gatun, near the Panama Canal. 1919-20.
Roger-Viollet | 596448 | George Washington Goethals (1858-1928), US Army General and civil engineer, supervisor for the construction and opening of the Panama Canal, and later governor of the zone of the canal. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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George Washington Goethals (1858-1928), US Army General and civil engineer, supervisor for the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 842054 | Travaux de percement du Canal de Panama (Amérique centrale), 1880-1913. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Travaux de percement du Canal de Panama (Amérique centrale), 1880-1913.
Roger-Viollet | 665350 | Travaux de percement du Canal de Panama (Amérique centrale), 1880-1913. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Travaux de percement du Canal de Panama (Amérique centrale), 1880-1913.
Roger-Viollet | 1061054 | First works of the Panama Canal : Bonaparte Wyse, sailor and french explorer, with Armand Reclus making the topographic study of isthmus. Engraving by Méaulle (1876). | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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First works of the Panama Canal : Bonaparte Wyse, sailor and french explorer, with Armand Reclus [...]
Roger-Viollet | 284194 | Canal de Panama. Stations de charbon de Balboa prise de Jossa Hill. 1917. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Stations de charbon de Balboa prise de Jossa Hill. 1917.
Roger-Viollet | 713588 | Beginnings of the construction of the Panama Canal. The French excavator. Around 1881-1885. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Beginnings of the construction of the Panama Canal. The French excavator. Around 1881-1885.
Roger-Viollet | 177796 | Canal de Panama. Destruction de la digue de Gamboa. Octobre 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Destruction de la digue de Gamboa. Octobre 1913.
Roger-Viollet | 450190 | Canal of Panama. Filling of locks of Gatun, about 1930. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal of Panama. Filling of locks of Gatun, about 1930.
Roger-Viollet | 975059 | Canal de Panama. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama.
Roger-Viollet | 1084844 | Works of the Panama Canal. Dredging flotilla at work in the eastern part of the Pedro Miguel lock, October 24, 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Works of the Panama Canal. Dredging flotilla at work in the eastern part of the Pedro Miguel lock, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1071222 | Percement of the Panama Canal. Picks up steam Bucyrus of 95 tons, 1913. BOY-5392 | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Percement of the Panama Canal. Picks up steam Bucyrus of 95 tons, 1913. BOY-5392
Roger-Viollet | 1021435 | Panama Canal. Drilling with an excavator dredge, 1908. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Panama Canal. Drilling with an excavator dredge, 1908.
Roger-Viollet | 1012132 | Canal de Panama. Tableau de distribution de la station de Gatún. 1909. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Tableau de distribution de la station de Gatún. 1909.
Roger-Viollet | 968805 | Vue vers le sud depuis l'écluse de Miraflores. Canal de Panamá. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Vue vers le sud depuis l'écluse de Miraflores. Canal de Panamá. 1919-1920.
Roger-Viollet | 958806 | Monument of the entrance(entry) of the Panama Canal. In the centre, obelisk with bawdy cock dedicated to the 22.000 Frenchmen died in the task. To the left: Lesseps's bust. To the right: those of his(her) co-workers. At the bottom(really): semicircular gallery. On the horizon: islands of the Defence and island of Taboga. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Monument of the entrance(entry) of the Panama Canal. In the centre, obelisk with bawdy cock [...]
Roger-Viollet | 934794 | Ecluse de Gatun (inférieure vue du nord). Canal de Panama (République d'Amérique Centrale). 6 mai 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Ecluse de Gatun (inférieure vue du nord). Canal de Panama (République d'Amérique Centrale). 6 mai [...]
Roger-Viollet | 921443 | To close the locks on the Panama Canal. HRL-617584 | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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To close the locks on the Panama Canal. HRL-617584
Roger-Viollet | 910483 | Canal de Panama. Passage du premier bateau remorqueur  Gatun  dans les écluses supérieures de Gatun. 26 septembre 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Passage du premier bateau remorqueur "Gatun" dans les écluses supérieures de [...]
Roger-Viollet | 906544 | Canal de Panama. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama.
Roger-Viollet | 899925 | Completion of Panamá's canal. The opening of Gatún's locks and the entrance of the first boat. 1914. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Completion of Panamá's canal. The opening of Gatún's locks and the entrance of the first boat. 1914.
Roger-Viollet | 878466 | Canal de Panama.  Toro point  montrant les quartiers des ouvriers. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. "Toro point" montrant les quartiers des ouvriers.
Roger-Viollet | 862839 | Canal de Panama. Digue de Gatún. Etat des constructions en béton armé. Janvier 1910. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Digue de Gatún. Etat des constructions en béton armé. Janvier 1910.
Roger-Viollet | 859501 | the Panama Canal. Cut of Culebra, on May 26, 1913. BOY-6333TER | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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the Panama Canal. Cut of Culebra, on May 26, 1913. BOY-6333TER
Roger-Viollet | 828510 | Construction of the Panama Canal. One of the upper doors of the canal before the water penetrates into the lock. October 31, 1912. HRL-617595 | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal. One of the upper doors of the canal before the water penetrates [...]
Roger-Viollet | 823564 | Canal de Panama. Portes de l'écluse supérieure de Gatún. 1912. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Portes de l'écluse supérieure de Gatún. 1912.
Roger-Viollet | 745725 | Canal de Panama. Entrée du Pacifique, section du canal au sud des écluses de Miraflores. 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Entrée du Pacifique, section du canal au sud des écluses de Miraflores. 1913.
Roger-Viollet | 743124 | Canal de Panama. Essai de relevage des ponts-écluses supérieurs de Gatún. Mai 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Essai de relevage des ponts-écluses supérieurs de Gatún. Mai 1913.
Roger-Viollet | 742359 | Percement of the Panama Canal. Explosion commanded(ordered) distance, of Washington, by the president Wilson, of 40 tons of dynamite, allowing to destroy(annul) the last earthly obstacle separating, to Gomboa, the waters of the lake of Gatun and those of the trench of Culebra, in October 10, 1913. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Percement of the Panama Canal. Explosion commanded(ordered) distance, of Washington, by the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 715649 | Construction of the Panama Canal. The deepest of excavation of the trench of Culebra. September 30, 1912. BOY-5408 | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal. The deepest of excavation of the trench of Culebra. September 30, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 713613 | Canal de Panama. Pulvérisation d'huile pour tuer les larves de moustique. 1912. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Pulvérisation d'huile pour tuer les larves de moustique. 1912.
Roger-Viollet | 711609 | Canal de Panama. Remblayage hydraulique de la digue de Gatún. 1912. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Remblayage hydraulique de la digue de Gatún. 1912.
Roger-Viollet | 702741 | Percement du canal de Panama. Drague à vapeur Bucyrus de 95 tonnes, 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Percement du canal de Panama. Drague à vapeur Bucyrus de 95 tonnes, 1913.
Roger-Viollet | 699477 | Drilling of the Panama Canal. Lock gate closing mechanism with 27 HP motor, 1912. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Drilling of the Panama Canal. Lock gate closing mechanism with 27 HP motor, 1912.
Roger-Viollet | 664818 | Panama Canal. View of Colon's Street from the 11th Street, December 1908. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Panama Canal. View of Colon's Street from the 11th Street, December 1908.
Roger-Viollet | 643390 | Canal of Panamá. Warehouses of coal of Balboa. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal of Panamá. Warehouses of coal of Balboa. 1919-1920.
Roger-Viollet | 641284 | Construction of the Panama Canal. French dredges on the river Chagres, circa 1885. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal. French dredges on the river Chagres, circa 1885.
Roger-Viollet | 616138 | Canal de Panamá. Barrage de secours testé à l'écluse de Pedro Miguel. 1919-1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panamá. Barrage de secours testé à l'écluse de Pedro Miguel. 1919-1920.
Roger-Viollet | 564963 | Canal de Panama. Ecluses de Gatun. Flottille de dragage au travail dans le bassin supérieur. 9 octobre 1913. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Canal de Panama. Ecluses de Gatun. Flottille de dragage au travail dans le bassin supérieur. 9 [...]
Roger-Viollet | 563789 | Construction of the Panama Canal, in 1912-1913: locks begun with by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer, to Gatun. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal, in 1912-1913: locks begun with by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 486054 | Construction of the Panama Canal, about 1890. The walls of one of the locks during works. HRL-617590 | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal, about 1890. The walls of one of the locks during works. HRL-617590
Roger-Viollet | 464171 | Ship transporting Australian troops from France at the end of World War I, passing through the Gatun Lock. Panama Canal, 1919-20. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Ship transporting Australian troops from France at the end of World War I, passing through the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 432024 | Construction of the Panama Canal. Miraflores's Westerner upper pond, in January 14, 1913. | © US National Archives / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Panama Canal. Miraflores's Westerner upper pond, in January 14, 1913.
Roger-Viollet | 413195 | Percement of the Panama Canal. Construction of Gatún's upper locks, 1912. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
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Percement of the Panama Canal. Construction of Gatún's upper locks, 1912.