Page 1., 02/10/1876-05/28/1879

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: 55775

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

(Folder 1) Contains the first folio of the scrapbook, pp.1-20. Pages 1a and 1b are blank.

Dates

02/10/1876-05/28/1879

Collection-level Access Restrictions

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Contains news items bearing the following headlines (from columns left to right): @ England in the East - All About the Suez Canal Purchase - The Official Correspondence. (Philadelphia Times, 2/10/1876) @ Inter-Oceanic Canals - Uniting the Atlantic and Pacific - The Nicaragua Route (ibid.) @ Pictures of the Day (5/2/1878). Includes reference to Ferdinand de Lesseps, engineer of the Suez Canal (1859-1869) and founder of the unsuccessful Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique commissioned to build the Panama Canal (1881-1889). @ The Isthmus Canal - Virtual Adoption of the Wyse-Panama Sea Level Route (New York Herald, 5/28/1879). Continues on pp.2-3. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte's niece Princess Laetitia. Wyse was sent on a six-month field survey (November 1876) of the prospective canal construction zone concluding in his theory for a Darien canal with a tunnel nine miles long.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

SUEZ CANAL: PURCHASE BY BRITAIN P.1: Printed Item

INTEROCEANIC CANAL COMMISSION & NICARAGUA ROUTE P.1: Printed Item

NICARAGUA ROUTE: INTER-OCEANIC CANAL COMMISSION P.1: Printed Item

LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE P.1: Printed Item

ISTHMUS CANAL & WYSE SEA LEVEL ROUTE P.1-3: Printed Item

WYSE, LUCIEN N.B. - ISTHMUS CANAL SEA LEVEL ROUTE P.1-3: Printed Item