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Panama Canal Zone

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Abraham L. Brick papers

 Collection
Identifier: L539
Scope and Contents This collection includes typed, autographed correspondence from Abraham L. Brick and others in Indiana and Washington, D.C. from 1850 to 1950, regarding personal and business matters; invitations to social events ranging from 1884 to 1901 regarding presidential and congressional events; photographs and tintypes of family, public events and places, including the Panama Canal, from 1866 to 1907 and undated; scrapbooks, diaries, expense account books, and other volumes.
Dates: 1850-1950

John Prichet journals

 Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates: 1849-1851