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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Anne D. Megary Stanley that Roosevet has received her letter. To obtain the information Stanley seeks, he recommends writing to either George W. Goethals or Joseph Bucklin, both of whom are in Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through the channel to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, with views of the Gatun spillway and the Chagres River. From here she passes from Gaillard Cut (Culebra Cut), into the Pedro Miguel Locks and into Miraflores Lake; then through the Miraflores Locks and into the final portion of the canal, passing the Canal Zone towns of Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights. Final views are of the Ancon Hospital (Gorgas Hospital) and the United States Administration Building at Balboa.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Alfred James Brown that his letter to Roosevelt has been received, but unfortunately Roosevelt cannot give him the information he requested. However, if Brown would care to write to the secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission in Panama, that individual might be able to provide him with the information he needs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks The Society of the Chagres through Thomas M. Cooke for the honor they conferred upon him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-23
President-elect Taft encloses a letter from Sir Harry Johnston about the dreadful conditions at the Hotel Imperial in Colón, and his own reply. He found Johnston’s decision to complain at length about his personal discomfort to another country’s head of state perplexing. Taft’s wife, Helen Herron Taft, did not share his “intense amusement” at Johnston’s “extremely English” tone. Taft also encloses the self-explanatory letter he wrote to President Jose Domingo de Obaldia of Panama after a call from Obaldia’s competitor, Ricardo Arias. Taft is disgusted by Representative Henry Thomas Rainey’s “diatribes” in the House of Representatives.
James Bronson Reynolds, Samuel B. Donnelly, and Henry Beach Needham submit a supplemental report on conditions in the Panama Canal construction zone to President Roosevelt, because the matters are either too trivial to mention in the main report they submitted, or potentially too controversial. They make recommendations regarding the sale of alcohol, the provision of fresh vegetables for the hospitals, considerations for foreign workers in the employ of the United States Government, wage increases and worker supervision, administrative courts, and worker safety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-06
The French chargé d’affaires to Panama, Henri Arthur Marie Barre Ponsignon, sends an excerpt of a report to Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphen Jean Marie Pichon about President Roosevelt’s recent visit to Panama. Roosevelt and heads of department left Ancón at seven in the morning to visit the Panama Canal work site in the rain and mud. Roosevelt, who spoke to many workers and asked questions, was able to fully appreciate the technical difficulties to be overcome. He made it clear to the new republic that he did not want any revolutions to hinder the work of the Canal, where over 7,000 Americans are currently employed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-19
Rainfall amounts for Cristobal, Culebra, and Ancon in Panama over three successive days.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-31
Following his attack on the board of consulting engineers for the Panama Canal, Philippe Bunau-Varilla’s hopes of becoming an engineer on the project have been dashed. Bunau-Varilla had proposed first building a lock canal that would gradually be dug into a sea-level canal; this plan was rejected as extravagant and unfeasible. Current plans are for a sea-level canal to be dug, which will take fifteen years and cost $230,000,000.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-20
Black and white postcard with a picture of President Roosevelt and the I. C. C. Hotel where, the postcard reports, Roosevelt stayed in November 1906 while visiting the Panama Canal region. In a handwritten note, the unknown author reports that they have been in the room occupied by Roosevelt.
1906-1908