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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 106380

Colon, Panama Canal Zone


Fueling a U.S. Navy warship at the Colon coaling docks, circa the 1910s or early 1920s.
Note the automated mechanism used to move coal from shore to ship.
The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.

Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Image posted 24 January 2009