Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida

The Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery is now open at the University of Florida in Smathers Library. To read more about it see http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/giving/news/GalleryOpening.

Thank you to everyone who has shared your scouting images with us! There is still some time, if you would like to share copies of your Boy Scout / Girl Scout photos with us for the PCS Reunion Exhibit. We can accept submissions until Saturday, June 25, at 5:00pm.

1.) Capture your Image
- Scan: Set your scanner to 300dpi (or higher)
OR Take a digital photo
- Place your item on a solid background (black is best)

2.) Attach the file to an email

3.) Include a story
- Who is pictured?
- Where was this photo taken?
- What year was it?
- What makes this item special to you?
- What memories does it inspire?

4.) Include your full name

5.) Send your images and story to: [email protected]

Join us for a reading and conversation with Olive Senior on Monday, February 8 at 4:00PM in the Judaica Suite (Smathers Library 2nd floor in Special Collections Grand Reading Room).

Olive Senior will read from her poetry and fiction and discuss Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, her recent prizewinning book which exposes a little known side of a monumental story.

Author of over 16 books, Olive Senior is one of the most prominent contemporary Caribbean writers, having won prominent prizes for her fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Senior has worked internationally as a creative writing teacher and lecturer on Caribbean literature and culture. She is on the faculty of the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, and has taught in
the writing programs at University of Toronto, St Lawrence University, Barnard College and Columbia University.

SPONSORED BY:
GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
MFA@FLA
AMHERST COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

http://staugustine.com/compass/2015-10-16/threads-silver-and-gold-premieres-thursday #.ViURl6JNsbF

'Threads of Silver and Gold' premieres Thursday A Classic Theatre, St. Augustine's smallest theatre company, brings big ideas to life with the world premiere of "Threads of Silver and Gold: Women of the Panama Canal" by Deborah B. Dickey.

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Real engineers wear pink: a profile of Ilya Marotta A profile of the Panama Canal expansion project's lead female engineer

Join us for a viewing of
"Panama Canal: Post Panamax"
October 16, 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Smathers Library, Room 100, University of Florida
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

"Panama Canal: Post Panamax," part 2 of a PBS documentary produced by WPBT2 of Miami, explores the future of the Panama Canal as it nears completion of a new set of locks. Photo by Panama Canal Authority.

http://anacostia.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Bridging-the-Americas-Community-and-Belonging-from-Panama-to-Washington-DC-5168

Bridging the Americas: Community and Belonging from Panama to Washington, D.C. | Smithsonian Using images and narratives, this exhibition presents the various ways in which Zonians and Panamanians in the D.C. metropolitan area think about home and belonging in and in-between Panama and Washington, D.C. From passage during the California Gold Rush to the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal…

Before the actual transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama on December 31, 1999, Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and other heads of state participated in a symbolic transfer ceremony on December 14, 1999.

These photographs were taken by Angus Grover Matheney. Panama Canal Museum Collection, Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Gift of Joseph Wood. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00014747/00052/allvolumes2

Join us for a viewing of "Panama Canal: Prized Possession," hosted by George A. Smathers Libraries, August 26, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 100, University of Florida. Part 1 of a PBS documentary produced by WPBT2 of Miami, the film explores the history of the transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama. A viewing of part 2, "Panama Canal: Post Panamax," will be held October 16, 2015 (time TBA).