YANKEE in Panama Canal
black-and-white photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSDillon, R.A. (Dr.)
Panama, Chagres River
1939-11
paper
overall: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Black and white photograph 3 3/4in x 4 3/4in. Reverse inscription: “31”; “R.A. Dillon, Yacht Yankee”; “Yankee in Panama Canal”; “R A Dillon” stamp in blue ink. Taken from Yankee’s deck between the masts looking forward, this image shows the vessel motoring through a narrowing passage between steep walls covered in vegetation. Several people are visible under a sun-shade. Panama Canal/Chagres River, Panama, November 1939.
2010.11.674