The French Era

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Ferdinand DeLesseps	Headquarters Panama City French Canal Company	Headquarters Panama City French Canal Company	Headquarters Atlantic Side French Canal Company	French Hospital Ancon
French Buildings at Ancon Hospital	French Hospital Colon	Sanitorium Taboga Island	Colon Port 1884	Cristobal French Era
Front Street Colon	Limon Bay Colon	Empire French Era	Cucaracha 1885	Views of Balboa French Era
Bas Obispo French Era	Old French Canal at Mindi	Juncture of French and American Canals Atlantic Side	Cutting the Canal at Panama	Pick & Shovel Brigade French Canal Workers
Excavation between Empire and Culebra 1888	Center of the Cut 1889	Culebra Cut Second French Company 1894	Looking South Culebra Cut 1895	Rio Grande Valley French Era
Cableway Excavation	French Excavator	Dredging at Mindi First French Company	Ladder Dredges at Chagres River opposite Gorgona	French Suction Dredge
French Dump Cars	Dredges at work	Northern End of Proposed Lock at Bas Obispo	Laborers filling dirt cars	Culebra Cut - 1904
French Locomotives 119 rebuilt and used by the Americans	Overwhelmed by the Jungle	Abandoned French Machinery	Tree Growing Thru French Dump Car	1880 French Canal Bond
Lucien Wyse Explored Panama for French Canal Route	DeLesseps Park Panama City	La Folie Dingler	Ancon Cemetery (later moved to Corozal) Thousands of French...	Mount Hope Cemetery Canal Workers are buried here
French Cemetery...	Paraiso Rep. of Panama	In Memory of...	Those That Were...	Left Behind

Photos:
Panama And The Canal by Willis J. Abbot
America's Triumph in Panama by Ralph Emmett Avery
Collection of Lesley Hendricks
El Senor Jim