Images Dated 2nd August 2010

Banff Springs Hotel, from Tunnel Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, c1930s(?).Artist: Marjorie Bullock

Banff Springs Hotel, from Tunnel Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, c1930s(?). The Banff Springs Hotel was completed in 1928. It was designed in Scottish Baronial style by Walters Painter, the American architect of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who owned the hotel. A photograph from an album of Marjorie Bullock, daughter of WE Bullock, managing director of Singer and Co Ltd, the car manufacturers

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Lock on the Panama Canal, 1931

Lock on the Panama Canal, 1931. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80 kilometre long canal between 1904 and 1914. The building of the canal cost the lives of an estimated 25, 000 workers due to accidents and tropical diseases. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931

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US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama, 1931

US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama, 1931. Commissioned in 1930, the Northampton was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers. She was sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the Battle of Tassafaronga off Guadalcanal on 30 November 1942. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931

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