Colon, The American Quarter by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)

            “The city of Colon is divided into two quarters – the native, or Panamanian, and the American.  The former is picturesque, but has nothing to do with the Canal and is some distance from it.  The Canal cannot be seen from the city.  The American quarter, in which the Canal employees live, stands on the sea shore, and is made up of bungalows, shops, hotels, hospitals – all that goes to make up a city – save saloons.  All are built of wood, painted white, and completely screened with wire gauze, rusted black by the dampness, a protection from mosquitoes and other beasts, bugs and vermin.  Raised on concrete supports mostly with long, gently sloping roofs, and buried in a forest of palms, the town, the first the visitor will see, seems absolutely Japanese, is very pictorial and full of character.  The design, I believe, of the houses was made by the American engineers or architects.

Very few of the higher Canal officers live at Colon, which is the Atlantic seaport of the Isthmus, the eastern mouth of the Canal, though Colon is west of Panama [City] – such is the geography of the country.”

-  Joseph Pennell (1912)

Taken on: March 1, 1912

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Colon [Panama]

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Sets appears in: • Sketches • Pennell's 1912 Drawings of Panama Canal

Camera: Hasselblad H4D-50MS - Hasselblad H4D, f/13.0, 1/125 sec, 80mm (=56mm), ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Hasselblad H4D-50MS - Hasselblad H4D
Lens:	HC 80
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	80mm (35mm equivalent: 56mm)
ISO:	50
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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