Lock canal project : map showing line of proposed lock canal with summit elevation at 85 feet

"Board of Consulting Engineers, Panama Canal."
Scale 1:50,000.
Relief shown by contours and hachures; depths shown in fathoms and feet.
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
One of 31 sheets issued in: [Panama Canal maps and elevation profiles] / Board of Consulting Engineers, Panama Canal. [Balboa Heights, Panama?] : Board of Consulting Engineers, Panama Canal, 1905.
"Topography is taken from a map published by the New Panama Canal Co. [Compagnie nouvelle du canal de Panama] ... from charts made by the U.S. Navy in 1900 and by the U.S. Geodetic Survey in 1905 ... [and] by the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905."
In bottom right margin: Julius Bien & Co. N.Y.
The maps were issued to accompany a separately published 99-page report: Canal Zone. Board of Consulting Engineers. Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1906). Report issued without maps in: U.S. 59th Congress, 1st Session, 1905-1906. Senate Document 231 (Serial Set 4923).

Citation

Canal Zone. Board of Consulting Engineers, "Lock Canal Project : Map Showing Line of Proposed Lock Canal with Summit Elevation at 85 Feet", in "[Panama Canal Maps and Elevation Profiles]" (Balboa Heights, Panama? : Board of Consulting Engineers, Panama Canal, 1905), issued separately to accompany Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1906), U.S. Serial Set 4923, 59th Congress, 1st session, Senate document 231. Map8F G4872.P3 1905 .C3 plate 8

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map8F G4872.P3 1905 .C3 plate 8

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Geographic Area Covered:

Panama--Panama Canal, Panama

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Digital reproduction of: 1 map : col. ; 88 x 169 cm.

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