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Photo of the Week
This
week we are moving on to another fantastic personal photo album that
belonged to a Robert Bodle who was in Panama during the construction
of the U.S. Canal. It appears in several of the photos that
Robert worked for the Supply Department in the Storehouse. I
will post photos of these Storehouses as we go on. It seems that
Robert was another camera buff like A.G. Bedell who we studied for a
few weeks. Robert made his way all around Panama and the Canal Zone
taking photos. All these images that I will be posting, I
scanned from rather large negatives that are in a negative box from
back in the day. Because these are scans from negatives, most of
the images are nice and clear as is evident in the image above.
In the above photo, Robert is inside a steam shovel bucket to show the
size. This bucket appears to be from a smaller steam shovel
which would make it a 2.5 yard bucket. It is apparently out of
service. The photo below shows Robert sitting at the base of a
large Quipo tree. These trees are so magnificent. |
