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The Panama Canal

A chart showing the percentage of Panama Canal laborers with malaria over time, 1916.

A chart showing the percentage of Panama Canal laborers with malaria over time, 1916.

Citation Information: Le Prince, Joseph Albert Augustin and Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein, “Mosquito control in Panama,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/4d60ee167f62b8f28e2e710879c6e615.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of Cornell University Library via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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A chart showing the percentage of Panama Canal laborers with malaria over time, 1916.

A photograph of man using a knapsack sprayer to apply larvacide to a ditch in Panama, 1910.

A photograph of Department of Agriculture surveyors documenting Gatun Lake prior to the completion of the Panama Canal, 1910-11.

A photograph of Jamaicans operating a compressed air drill as part of construction for the Panama Canal, 1913.

A photograph of a construction tower in the Panama Canal Bed.

A photograph of segregated living quarters for black Panama Canal laborers and their families.

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