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Gathered and organized during the tenure of Aurin B. Nichols as Office Engineer at the Panama Canal, the Nichols Notebook Archive provides material specifications and health reports required for successful construction with mass amounts of people and concrete.
These construction specifications juxtapose unpredictable site conditions, health and the movement of people, with the pursuit of material predictability, engineered concrete.
A. B. Nichols Notebook Vol. Folio XXX
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Re-examining the role of water in the construction of the Panama Canal
1904 LABORERS, LOCAL AND MIGRANT, ARRIVE ON-SITE
Chapter XVI, Labor
Scott, The Americans in Panama
Laborers Contracted by the ICC
The Canal Record
Labor Force Departs for Panama
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U.S. Public Health and Marines-Hospital Service
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Laborers Arriving by Train to the Canal Zone
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1906 SANITATION LAWS PUT INTO AFFECT
Sanitary Rules and Regulations, Act No. 9
Laws of the Canal Zone, Isthmus Canal Commission
Images of the Sanitation Labor Force
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Vol. Folio XXX, Section 16, Sanitary Inspection
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Report of the Department of Sanitation
Reports of the Canal Zone, Isthmus Canal Commission
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1909 CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION OF LOCKS BEGINS
Folio V. Section 5, Cement Specifications
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Folio U3. Proposals to Furnish Portland Cement
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Folio XXX. Section 15, Cement Specifications
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Vol. Folio X, Section 8, Concrete Testing
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Materials Mixed at Concrete Plant
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Cable System Moving Concrete in Buckets
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Dispersing Concrete at Locks
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