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    This document summarizes the history of Panama and the Panama Canal through 42 postage stamps and 7 picture postcards spanning 1902 to 1999. It outlines key events like the first attempts to build a canal in 1881, US involvement and the independence of Panama in 1903, construction of the canal from 1904 to 1914, the Carter-Torrijos Treaty in 1977 transferring control to Panama, and Panama fully controlling the canal by 1999. The document also describes the five eras of postage stamps issued in the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1979 that mark the changing control of the canal over the decades.

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    This document summarizes the history of Panama and the Panama Canal through 42 postage stamps and 7 picture postcards spanning 1902 to 1999. It outlines key events like the first attempts to build a canal in 1881, US involvement and the independence of Panama in 1903, construction of the canal from 1904 to 1914, the Carter-Torrijos Treaty in 1977 transferring control to Panama, and Panama fully controlling the canal by 1999. The document also describes the five eras of postage stamps issued in the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1979 that mark the changing control of the canal over the decades.

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    A History of Panama

    and Its Canal


    in
    Forty-Two Postage Stamps
    and Seven Picture Postcards

    1
    This presenta-on is a blending of postage
    stamps, picture postcards, and history. It is
    focused on the years 1902–1999, when there
    was the highest US involvement in Panama.

    The -tle and style of this presenta-on reflect


    two excellent books by Chris West, published
    by Picador:
    A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage
    Stamps, published in 2013, and
    A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage
    Stamps, published in 2014.
    2
    3
    1513 Balboa
    1671 Morgan, the pirate
    1819 Bolivar founds Gran Columbia
    1855 Panama Railroad opens
    1881–1903 de Lesseps’ aVempts
    1902 US decides on Panama for its canal
    1903 Teddy Roosevelt and independent Panama
    1904–1914 Canal construc-on
    1977 Carter-Torrijos Treaty
    1979 Canal Zone post offices close
    1999 Panama controls the canal
    4
    1902: Stamp distributed to persuade
    US Senate to select the Panama route

    5
    Use of Railroads

    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    Elimina-on of Diseases

    11
    12
    13
    Scale of the Canal

    14
    15
    Five Eras of Postage Stamps in the
    Canal Zone
    First Stamp Era
    June 24 – July 17, 1904

    16
    17
    Second Stamp Era
    July 18 – December 9, 1904

    18
    Third Stamp Era 1904–1924

    19
    Third Stamp Era 1904–1924
    con-nued

    20
    Third Stamp Era 1904–1924
    con-nued

    21
    Fourth Stamp Era 1924–1939

    22
    Fourth Stamp Era 1924–1939
    con-nued

    23
    Fi_h Stamp Era 1928–1979

    (the Fourth and Fi_h Eras overlapped 1928–1939,


    using issue dates of the stamps)
    24
    Fi_h Stamp Era 1928–1979
    con-nued

    25
    Fi_h Stamp Era 1928–1979
    con-nued

    26
    Fi_h Stamp Era 1928–1979
    con-nued

    27
    Fi_h Stamp Era 1928–1979
    con-nued

    28
    Last Day of US-Run Post Offices

    29
    Panama Stamp of 1997 Celebra-ng
    the Carter-Torrijos Treaty of 1977

    30
    Four Outstanding Sources
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
    Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Can
    al_Zone

    www.canalzonestudygroup.com

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone

    The Path Between the Seas: The Crea=on of the


    Panama Canal 1870–1914 by David McCullough
    (1978)
    31
    END

    David Farnsworth
    June 2022

    32

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