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Nicaragua Canal Construction Company Records
Identifier: MSS34660
Abstract
A corporate enterprise formed to build the first trans-Isthmian canal across Central America. Chiefly survey notebooks concerning the nature, depth, and suitability of the rivers and waterways of Nicaragua for purposes of a canal. Also includes issues of the Canal Record, an American newspaper published in the Panama Canal Zone.
Dates
1887-1913; Majority of material found within 1887-1888