Item CZYB15
This Item was Sold on 8 November
2013 for $97.90
Similar artifacts for sale are often found on the Canal
Zone Yearbooks web page.
Historical Pricing information for this item and similar artifacts
can be found at: Historical Artifact
Prices.
This is the 1972 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of the
Panama Canal Zone in the town of Coco Solo. The contents
include faculty and student activities for grades 7 through
12. The end of the yearbook has lots of cool advertisements
from familiar places in Colon and the Atlantic side of the
Panama Canal Zone. This yearbook belonged to Mrs. Dorothy
Huffman Smith who was the Senior High School English teacher
and the director of the yearbook committee. I stayed in
touch with Mrs. Smith after graduating from CHS. Dorothy
wanted her yearbook collection to be donated to the Panama
Canal Museum in Florida. After her death, Dorothy's family
gave me her entire yearbook collection to give to the
museum. The museum said that they already had 3 copies of
each yearbook and they did not want any more. Instead, they
wanted money to pay for digitizing existing yearbooks so
that images could be added to the University
of Florida Panama Archives. I gave the museum a large
donation and kept the yearbooks. This yearbook is one of
Dorothy's yearbooks and I am selling it to help me recover
part of my donation to the museum. This yearbook is in
like-new condition except for a small ding on the inside of
the front cover. There is no writing inside. A rare and
valuable document about life in the former Panama Canal
Zone.