Gardner Manley holding a skull, Panama, November 3, 1905

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
PANAMA
1905-11-03
paper
overall: 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

Albumen print; Gardner Manley holding a human skull and sitting on an open coffin containing 7 human skulls; handwritten in ink at right "Panama/ Nov. 3, 1905./ "Happy Days."" [rest cut off]; handwritten in blue ballpoint on back "Gardner Manley/ in Panama"; Gardner Manley was a civil engineer with the 7th NY Engineer Regiment on the Panama Canal.


2005.94.2

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