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1920réf. 230431920. Panama City photograph archive ca. 1920s documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal's opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering international commerce tourism and everyday street life that developed as Panama City became a strategic hub of global shipping and American geopolitical influence in the Caribbean basin. Urban scenes depict commercial storefronts streetcars automobiles and pedestrian activity along central avenues while other photographs capture the canal's mechanical landscape of locks spillways and industrial structures. Together the images illustrate the transformation of Panama City into a cosmopolitan port city shaped by canal traffic international trade and the presence of the U.S. Canal Zone administration. Archive of eighteen original silver gelatin photographs depicting Panama City and surrounding canal infrastructure. Each measure approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Several images show major canal engineering features including a photograph captioned "Purifying Plant and Spillway - Panama Canal" as well as views of lock systems and canal transport routes where cargo vessels pass through the waterway. Urban photographs record commercial and entertainment districts including a façade marked "American Cabaret" a busy street labeled "Street Scene - Panama City" and a view of the Hotel Central along a principal thoroughfare lined with automobiles and electric streetcars. One photograph bears the caption "264 - President's Palace on day of Riot Panama 2-28-." showing crowds gathered along balconies and streets near the presidential residence during a moment of public unrest. Additional photographs document daily life and local commerce including outdoor market scenes pedestrians and vendors workers posing near canal machinery and residents standing beside storefront displays. Landscapes and travel images appear as well including a waterfall and rural roadside scenes with automobiles indicating the expansion of modern transportation and tourism into the Panamanian countryside during the early twentieth century. The photographs collectively capture the layered social and industrial landscape that emerged in Panama after the completion of the Panama Canal when the city became a focal point of hemispheric trade and international transit. The canal drastically shortened maritime routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and reshaped the economy of the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Americas. Panama City consequently developed a complex urban culture combining local Panamanian communities canal workers foreign merchants travelers and U.S. officials connected to canal administration. Light surface wear and minor edge handling visible on several prints overall very good condition. These images document that environment through views of transportation infrastructure entertainment venues commercial streets and civic spaces offering a visual record of Panama City during the formative decades of the canal era. Photographs measure approximately postcard size. unknown
1892réf. A61972Paris, Masson 1892 176 + (i) pp.+ 49 planches hors-texte (des vues photographiques, plans & cartes - qqs.unes en couleurs) & II: Atlas à part ("plans annexés") contenant 2 grandes cartes dépliantes: Plan général du canal (projet de la Compagnie, Projet de la Commission d'études, Projet proposé) & Profils en long sur l'axe du canal (id.), Edition originale de 1892, 31cm., peu commun, bon état, [Ouvrage complet mais sans l'annexe "Le traffic" publiée la même année]
1892176 + (i) pp.+ 49 planches hors-texte (des vues photographiques, plans & cartes - qqs.unes en couleurs) & II: Atlas à part ("plans annexés") contenant 2 grandes cartes dépliantes: Plan général du canal (projet de la Compagnie, Projet de la Commission d'études, Projet proposé) & Profils en long sur l'axe du canal (id.), Edition originale de 1892, 31cm., peu commun, bon état, [Ouvrage complet mais sans l'annexe "Le traffic" publiée la même année]
1852réf. 1338Original manuscript. 1852-1854. Folio 38 x 27cm. Full contemporary reverse calf with gilt morocco titles labels to the spine "Rough Sales Book / S & L / B". Marbling to page edges. Marbled endpapers with engraved label for "Baily Brothers Booksellers Stationers Account Book Manufacturers" London to the front pastedown. 172pp. of manuscript text in ink on red-ruled laid paper watermarked "W. King / 1850" followed by c.160pp. blank with a handful of pages torn out following the conclusion of the manuscript text section and another within the text. The majority of entries are in English with some in Spanish mostly written in the same hand. Condition is very good the binding firm with marking to the boards chipping to the head of the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with a 3cm tear to the head of the first text page and two pages partially cut/torn away at the bottom are otherwise in good order. The ledger of a British sales agents operating in Panama during the mid-nineteenth century detailing the importation and sale of a wide variety European and South American goods into the country. The manuscript meticulously records the origin city/country importer ship the goods received and sold and the charges entailed for each shipment. A typical entry for example records the arrival of "gunpowder received per "Alexander" and sold on behalf of the Kames Gunpowder Company Glasgow" followed by details of the subsequent purchasers "J. D. Cordova" etc. and the charges/commissions taken by the agent including fees for landing expenses and "carriage to arsenal". Many of the entries describe large diverse cargoes combining both essential and luxury goods including: alpacas; chocolate pots; "41 cases of pickles and mustard"; lavender water; rocking chairs; a "copying machine"; cinnamon; scissors razors; bone buttons; horse brushes; compasses; gin; hatchets; bedsteads; looking glasses; children's toys; cloves; muslins; kegs of shot; cups and saucers; tobacco; machetes; claret; playing cards rat traps; "Aqua de Colonia" cologne; silk gloves; saddles; blunderbusses; padlocks; lace; pantaloons; "Jamaica rum"; almonds; vinegar; bonnets; sausages; gold frames; water closets; wash stands; champagne; mosquito nets; and much else besides. The origin ports include major European trade centres such as Liverpool and Glasgow but also include many South American ports such as Guayaquil Equador carrying beans cocoa coffee sugar and quinoa amongst other things; Buenaventura Colombia; Callao Peru carrying candlesticks coffee mills and bayonets; Lima Peru "bottled fruits" and cherry cordial; and Valparaiso Chile; as well as San Francisco and New York to the north. The importers themselves are also a mixture of British and Panamanian companies. A fascinating detailed insight into Panama's transatlantic and South American trade during the mid-nineteenth century. [Original manuscript]. hardcover
1914réf. 38258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 8 11/16 x 5 15/16 inches. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Bibliotek in 2017 Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown
réf. PD8796 loose gelatin silver photographs ca. 11.5 x 6.5 cm 4 ½ x 2 ½ in. 27 images with period ink or pencil captions on verso. Five images with period ink captions on recto. a couple of photos very mildly faded or with minor creasing but overall a very good collection of strong interesting photos. A well-preserved collection of 96 gelatin silver photographs showing France Field and Cristóbal in the Panama Canal Zone as well as Colón in 1945. The collection was likely compiled by a US Army Air Force officer stationed at France Field at that time. Later renamed France Field Air Force Base in 1948 and then deactivated in 1949 and turned into a civil airport. It is still in use as of 2025 as Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport. Over 45 photographs are of France Field. They show lines of fighter planes parked on the tarmac; exteriors of base headquarters base chapel bachelors’ quarters the “GI Club” “France Field Exchange” with restaurant and barber shop and the dispensary; a bus stop with one bus reading “Naval Air Station Cristobal No. 50”; the interior of officers’ barracks and leisure area; and the compiler’s “favourite speed boat” as well as other snapshots around the base. There are also group portraits showing officers posing with a Nazi flag in front of planes outside a shack labelled “Radio” with women and playing with puppies. Several individual portraits show officers posing before a plane with a bomb or in the cockpit. One photograph is captioned “Some of our San Blas mess boys going out to play baseball.” Also included are over 40 photographs of Panamanian cities including Colón and Cristóbal. Over ten are of Colón showing Balboa Boulevard boats in a harbour Washington Hotel and its pool the Municipal Palace of Colón burned down 1966 the Columbus Monument in central Colón and several street scenes including lottery tickets being sold. Seven photographs show Cristóbal now part of the city of Colón but then part of the Canal Zone including Cristobal High School Cristobal Fire Station Union Church and Christ Church by the Sea. The other photographs show street scenes with signs reading “Club Florida” “Cafe America” “Hotel Tres Hermanos” etc.; a building identified as the “US Consul” in the caption; and a large group of people betting on horse races. Overall a lively and well-preserved collection of photographs showing France Field Air Force Base and the nearby cities of Colón and Cristóbal during the end of World War II. unknown
1925réf. 227551925. Latin America SS Resolute voyage photograph album 1925 documenting a steamship journey through Central and South America during the interwar expansion of international maritime tourism following the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The photographs record port cities landscapes and civic landmarks encountered along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Latin America during a period when luxury liners increasingly connected North American travelers with destinations across the hemisphere. By the 1920s transisthmian canal travel had reshaped global shipping and passenger routes allowing cruise itineraries to combine Caribbean Pacific and South American destinations within a single voyage. The album preserves visual evidence of these emerging travel circuits while also documenting major urban and cultural centers of the region during a period of modernization and expanding hemispheric exchange. Photo album compiled during the 1925 voyage of the steamship SS Resolute containing approximately 150 original silver gelatin photographs mounted to black album leaves and captioned in white ink. Contemporary red leatherette album titled "Photographs" in gilt and bound with red cord. Photographs measure approximately 3 x 4 inches to 4 x 6 inches. The photographs document the vessel's route through Panama and the Canal Zone before continuing along the Pacific coast of South America and returning through the Atlantic basin. Numerous photographs depict Panama City and the Panama Canal including views of the Culebra Cut and Gold Hill major engineering features of the canal project completed little more than a decade earlier. Other sections of the album record urban and harbor scenes in Cartagena Colombia including colonial architecture and waterfront activity. Photographs from Peru show Lima's Plaza de Armas the bullring at Miraflores and rural Andean valleys near Arequipa with terraced agricultural landscapes and local communities. Images from Chile capture the steep hills and harbor districts of Valparaíso along with coastal plazas and naval vessels near El Morro. Additional photographs from Argentina depict major civic spaces in Buenos Aires including Plaza San Martín and Plaza de Mayo documenting the monumental architecture and modernizing urban landscape of the city during the 1920s. The steamship SS Resolute operated as a passenger liner serving long distance routes during the interwar expansion of luxury cruising and international tourism. Voyages such as the one recorded in this album reflected the growing accessibility of transcontinental travel made possible by the Panama Canal and by the increasingly global network of commercial steamship lines linking the Americas. Mild toning consistent with age; mounts and binding well preserved. Overall very good condition. The photographs collectively document a hemispheric itinerary connecting canal infrastructure colonial port cities Andean landscapes and rapidly modernizing capitals offering a visual record of the cultural and geographic environments encountered by travelers during the height of the steamship era. unknown
1914réf. 38258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017 Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown books
1676réf. P2-5A-3Paris : Gervais Clouzier, 1676. 4 parties en deux volumes, 8° (160 x 100 mm) , plein veau époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec titre et tomaison , différence de reliure, 13ffnch.-246pp-2ffnch et 4ffnch.240pp. , 4ffnch.-297pp.-2ffnch. Et 4ffnch.-153pp.-2ffnch. , coins et coupes usés , reliure solide , mouillure sur quelques feuillets (t3-4).
réf. 13597Paris A la Librairie de Guillaumin 1843 in 8 1 volume relié demi veau lisse violine, dos lisse, filets dorés soulignant des faux-nerfs à froid (reliure de l'époque), 505 pages [1]. Et d'un coup d'oeil sur la canalisation de l'isthme de Panama. Rare première édition. Chadenat 2726. Gay: 2677. Sabin: 70391. Bel exemplaire
1936réf. 5953Balboa Panama Canal Zone 1936. Very good. Eighty-four black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs each about 8 x 10 inches many with typed or manuscript captions on verso plus thirty-two typed documents some signed. Moderate edge wear occasional minor marginal chipping to photographs. Mostly minor wear to documents. A striking collection of photographs picturing construction of the Panama Canal during the years of the First World War. Many of the photographs are dated between 1914 and 1916 and almost all capture construction of the Panama Canal mainly around Dry Dock #1 at the Balboa and Pacific Terminals. Many of the photographs are captioned either typed or in manuscript on the verso providing valuable information on the settings of these images. Most of the images were taken from an elevated viewpoint from area towers offering unusual detail of the construction sites in the Balboa area "before flooding" of the canal with some images showing the canal "ready to be flooded;" the images taken at ground level also exhibit the sheer size and depth of the project with human figures dwarfed by the canal walls. A healthy number of images feature local workers of African descent engaged in manual labor on the walls and in the flat bottom of the canal. These workers are managed by a coterie of white subjects. In fact one of the more striking images speaks volumes about the literal separation between the managers and laborers in the Canal Zone. The photograph is a group shot featuring seventeen white managers standing in the foreground in front of a group of twenty-two Black workers. A sampling of the settings and activity revealed in the captions for the photographs include "Dy Dock #1 -- Entrance" "Placing granite in the hollow quoin -- Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa" "General view of Dry Dock #1 -- from the boom of Unloader Tower" "Progress of concrete in south wall as of Oct. 20 1914" "Head wall of Dry Dock #1" "Reinforcing around the suction chamber Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock looking from the head wall west towards the sea" "D.D. excavation looking eastward toward headwall of the dock from the Coffer Dam" "Reinforcement in and around cross culverts at the west and end of Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock #1 one month after commencing concrete work in the south wall" "Dry Dock No. 1 Pumping Plant -- Erecting 54-inch Check Valves -- Looking west" "General view of construction progress around pump well and discharge culvert -- Dry Dock" "Dry Dock Gate -- South Leaf -- Heel casting after wedges have been placed and rivets driven" "Reinforced concrete pontoons -- Preparing to pour concrete in No. 2 pontoon" and "Placing the last girder on dock gate Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa." The photographs are accompanied by a group of more than thirty military documents relating to the service of Major William C. Foote in the mid-1930s. Most of the documents concern Major Foote's assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Amador in the Canal Zone in Balboa. Both the photographs and documents were found in a large envelope marked "Personal File Major William C. Foote." Finding the Panama Canal photographs along with Major Foote's later paperwork indicate that he probably acquired the photographs while serving in the Canal Zone and the material stayed together all these years. unknown
1898réf. 21219591898. New York The Evening Post Job Printing House. Dated December 26 1898. 4to. Original printed wrappers; pp. 38 20 plates after photographs large folding sections in red and black large folding map in red and black; spine with few restorations small marginal flaw to front wrappers wire-stitched as issued with oxidization to wire-stitching; a very good copy of a great rarity presented to one Albert de Colomb with ink inscription to front wrapper.Very rare first edition. The first attempt to build the canal started under the leadership of Ferdinand de Lesseps proved to be a failure and the company collapsed in 1889. 'Although the company reorganized in 1894 it virtually ceased to function by 1898. Any possibility of completing the canal across Panama was gone; its sole hope lay in holding together an enterprise that could be offered for sale' Enyclopaedia Britannica. This rare document was compiled the by the International Technical Commission and assesses the possibility of resuming work which finally after difficult diplomatic negotiations and under the pressure of the United Stated and mainly supported by Roosevelt could be completed in 1914. An estimated 20000 lives were lost during the construction but the canal changed international shipping trade and the flow of goods for ever. unknown
1915réf. 031111Shanghai 1915 Siccawei [Zikawei] Catholic Mission (Tushanwan Orphanage Press) Hardcover 1st Edition
1918réf. 015759Paris Editions de la Sirène 1918 In-8 carré Reliure
réf. PB62Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33.5 cm. 50 card stock leaves. With ca. 218 mounted and 1 loosely inserted gelatin silver photographs including 2 large images ca. 175x25 cm 7 x 9 ¾ in and 2 panoramas from ca. 75x28 3 x 11 in to ca. 85x21 cm 3 ¼ x 8 ¼ in; the rest of the photos from ca. 12x175 cm 4 ¾ x 7 in to ca. 75x11 cm 2 ¾ x 4 ½ in. Most of the photos with period white ink manuscript captions. Period maroon patterned cloth album fastened with a string; front board with an embossed gilt pictorial image of a ship. A couple of photos removed ca. three images slightly loose A couple of photos with mild silvering but otherwise a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically important extensive collection of vivid and lively vernacular photos taken by a U.S. Navy serviceman from Aerial Squadron 51 during the Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean in 1939-1941. The Patrol initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt in September 1939 aimed to preserve American neutrality during the early years of WWII by monitoring and reporting on belligerent warship activities in the Atlantic and the West Indies. The album features over eighty interesting views of Panama Cativa Panama City San Blas Portobello captured during the compiler's stay at Coco Solo Naval Air Station. Most of the candid urban photos portray Colon showcasing local hotspots - the Silver Spray Casino “One of the ‘Elite’ Nite Clubs in Colon” Bilgray’s Tropical Bar 1924-1974 the Atlantic Night Club and the Chinese Bar adorned with delicate posters of Chinese ladies. There are also lively scenes of Panamanian Boy Scouts carrying American flags butchers selling meat in the native market locals buying lottery tickets “Everybody buys a lottery ticket” uniformed men examining theatre posters and people enjoying meals at a soda fountain. About ten photos capture the festive atmosphere of the 1941 Pre-Lent Celebration in local streets several signboards are clearly visible with participants in ceremonial attire joyfully waving from cars. Additionally a series of images document the aftermath of the 1940 Great Fire and the temporary quarters for the fire victims “furnished by the U.S. Army. " The rest of the interesting “Panamanian” photos capture scenes of the San Blas Indian Village including native children swimming in canoes sharing smiles with Squadron soldiers standing alongside native huts and an “Indian family” dressed in traditional clothing seated in a boat. Several photos show the Madden Dam near the city of Gamboa completed in 1935 Berlanga Cathedral in Panama City and likely the compiler posing beside the "Ruins of Old City of Panama. " Most photos from Puerto Rico the San Juan Camp and Cuba Guantanamo Bay Naval Base vividly document Squadron 51’s military life showcasing officers' quarters washrooms tents the exterior & the interior PBY plane lineups morning musters soldiers during exams rifle practices and abandon ship drills. One interesting image features Frank Knox 47th United States Secretary of the Navy on his early inspection trip to the Squadron camp in San Juan. There are also about forty lively group portraits mostly with captions of the squadron members playing baseball volleyball poker & billiard joining in a “tug-of-war” game drinking & laughing at a beer party singing playing violin & drums “quenching thirst in the Jungle” visiting the Caribbean National Park etc. Several photographs show the Capitol and the University of Puerto Rico as well as the aerial view of the Bacardi Rum Mill in Guantanamo. The album also includes two large photos Guantanamo Harbor and "Squadron Baseball Game " and two panoramas the city of New Panama and the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay. Overall a historically important collection documenting the American Presence in the Caribbean during the Neutrality Patrol. hardcover
1938réf. 158618N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 64 vintage photographs including 53 matte-finish and eleven glossies documenting reconstruction of the Panama Canal's Dock 15 in Balboa. Most photographs with technical captions and dates from the negative on the rectos. Additionally included with the photographs is a collection of four booklets dated between 1919 and 1943 discussing various aspects of the canal's construction and improvements during that time as well as an original shipping envelope addressed from the Panama Canal Metal Trades Council. With Europe on the verge of war in the early 1930s the US government became increasingly concerned about its ability to move naval warships between oceans. The canal locks would be susceptible to bombing in the event of war the canal defenses were deemed inadequate and the locks already had difficulty accommodating large US battleships. As a result Congress passed a resolution on May 1 1936 authorizing a study of and subsequent improvements to the canal's defenses existing structure and vessel capacity. Originally constructed in 1911 Dock 15 was weakened by gradual earth movement necessitating its replacement. With the exception of the construction of the Madden Dam between 1930 and 1936 the $1220000 reconstruction of Dock 15 was one of the largest canal projects after the close of the construction era. Photographs: 61 photographs 10 x 8 inches 3 photographs 5 x 4 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased overall. Pamphlets: From 8 x 10.5 inches to 9 x 12 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine some with scattered foxing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
1823réf. 5754Panama: Jose Maria Goytia 1823. Very good plus. Broadsheet handbill 8.5 x 6 inches. Minor creasing. Faint dampstaining at right edge. An extremely rare statement by Spanish general Melchor Aymerich following his final defeat in Ecuador by Antonio José Sucre and subsequent flight to Panama in 1822. Aymerich the "Mariscal de Campo de los Ejercitos Españoles" and "Jeneral en Jefe de las Armas Españolas" states that he and his family traveled lodged and ate at their own expense following his defeat at Pichincha by Sucre and subsequent capitulation. No money or provision of any kind was provided to them by the Republic of Gran Colombia. He continues to declare that they traveled from Quito to Guayaquil and thence to Panama and would soon be departing for Havana. While in Panama he was the guest of the Commandant of the Isthmus Colonel José Maria Carreno and he thanks the Colonel and his family for their generosity and assistance. Although the caption title of this broadsheet states that it is an "Addicion" to a lengthier "Manifiesto" this prior work does not seem to have survived. The present handbill is a very early Panamanian imprint. There is no evidence of there having been printing in Panama during its colonial period and exactly when the first press was introduced there is unclear. OCLC locates a single copy of a call for independence in New Spain published by the present printer José Maria Goytia in 1821 and vanishingly few issues of two newspapers established in 1822. Medina traces an 1822 sermon as printed in Panama and we locate a smattering of other imprints from this period including the present handbill of which OCLC notes a single copy at the John Carter Brown Library; we know of one other at the New York Public Library. Jose Maria Goytia unknown
1886réf. 127543Paris, Challamel 1886 In-8 23 x 13,5 cm. Reliure demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, couverture conservée, VIII-84 pp., 1 panorama en couleurs 80 x 30 cm repliée in fine, table des matières. Joint la 1re épreuve corrigée par A. Garçon. Nombreux documents joints lettres de remerciement diverses, cartes de visite, coupures de presse dont 3 lettres autographes de Ferdinand de Lesseps et 2 de Victor de Lesseps.
1918réf. List2982Peru and Panama 1918. Approximately 364 photos; album and unmounted photos silver prints cyanotypes and printing-out-paper prints. Photos measure 3 x 4 to 8 x 10 inches with about half measuring 3 x 5 ½ inches. Some with photographer’s hand-stamp or credit in pencil; others with manuscript notations verso or recto; some captions to album pages. Offered in partnership with Daniel / Oliver. Rich and extensive photographic archive of Walton T. Burres of Stockton California showing his time in Peru c. 1904 as an amateur explorer and doctor for the Inca Mining and Rubber Company and his later work in Panama c. 1918 with the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Division.The collection consists of a large number of loose photos acquired by the gallery in 2021 and a recently discovered photo album showing some of the same subjects and containing a few duplicate images some printed in different sizes or formats as well as hundreds of previously unseen prints. Together this material makes up the largest extant archive of Burres’s photographic work. Though his work was published at the time both in Peruvian and American publications much of it was lost when he dropped it in a river that he was attempting to ford. Burres was educated at California’s Cooper Medical College the first school of medicine on the West Coast and was a prominent member of the Stockton community before sojourning to Peru around 1900 to help the Inca Mining and Rubber Company address the deadly diseases endemic to the region such as malaria and yellow fever. To encourage economic infrastructure in remote areas the Peruvian government began granting land concessions to any company that would build roads bridges or river ports. As a result the Inca Mining Company an American outfit based in Tirapata purchased the rights to mine gold along the upper Inambari River in 1896 and soon became the richest gold producer in Peru. A large portion of Burres’s Peruvian images document his 1903–1904 excursion from Arequipa 150 miles into “rubber country.” The journeys were well-recounted in U.S. papers and a number of the anecdotes described in print are seen in the present images. There are many dynamic views of Burres and his party trekking through the dense jungle and summiting the high mountains as well as shots of flora fauna and native Peruvians. Burres’s travel companions for this trip included the famed adventurer Harriet Chalmers Adams later dubbed “America’s greatest woman explorer” by the New York Times. Adams and her husband Frank both fellow Stocktonians joined up with Burres during their own multi-year expedition through South America. There are a number of portraits of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Adams though it is possibly another person. Other Peruvian material includes numerous views of Cusco Arequipa and the surrounding environs including a beautiful interior of a chapel a Martin Chambi-esque detail shot of a stone wall and portraits of local townspeople some identified as Quechua people. There are a number of lush large-format cyanotypes rich printing-out-paper views and many handsome small-format panoramas. These were printed on Inca Mining Company surplus stationary which speaks to the makeshift nature of photo-development under the circumstances. One particularly striking image shows the top of Misti volcano barely visible above the clouds. This image was reproduced in Burres's account of his travels published in 1909 in Outing magazine. The photographs from Burres’s time in Panama document his more serious work as a virologist and health administrator in the area. One interesting photo shows a pair of recently-shot iguanas with a caption noting that “blood of these reptiles was found infected with Haemogregarina.” Another image is that of a new style of privy built from concrete and wire-mesh designed to better keep out rain water. There are also keenly-shot views of main streets and local culture in Los Santos Chiriquí and elsewhere including a number of humanistic group portraits taken at a girl’s school. unknown
