North over Gatun locks and sea level entrance to Panama Canal, Atlantic Ocean in the distance

Old Spanish ruins at Old Panama, Canal Zone.

Reviewing American troops, Empire, Panama

Spanish laborers at work in Culebra Cut and loaded train hauling dirt from canal

The S.S. PANAMA in Culebra Cut on Sunday, Feb. 7, 1915 - the first excursion to go through the Panama Canal

Indian dug-outs on the Chagres River, bringing bananas, the chief export of Panama, to Gatun

Front St., Colon, once a river of mud - now paved and made sanitary, Panama

Ave. of Palms, De Lessups Mansions and entrance to the Panama Canal at Colon

View from Cristobal looking along the principal business street of Colon, Canal Zone

Negro woman carrying coal at a penny a basket from lighter to steamer, Cristobal, Panama

Laborers at work on the Panama Canal at the Culebra Cut

A sugar mill in its most primitive guise, Panama Canal Zone

Laborers rafting spiles for cofferdams, Balboa, Canal Zone

Boy soldiers in the regular Panama Army - contrasted with U.S. officers - part of a frontier guard, Bayano River

On the Bayano River, interior Panama - Indians supplying Panama soldiers at a frontier pass

Picturesque nipa shaks on stilts - typical country homes of Panay, P.I.

Ermita, during flood tide, near Manila, Philippine Islands.

Traveling in native ox-carts, Isthmus of Panama

The building of a Filipino house - making the framework for the roof

After a typhoon - wherever the roof lands, there the Filipino makes his home

Mayon and town of Legaspi, Luzon, Philippine Islands