Item CZYB21
This Item was Sold on 6 Srptember
2014 for $63
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 1971 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 was part of the Panama Canal Museum
archives. When they closed down, I gave the museum a large
donation in exchange for some of their yearbooks. I already
have a copy of this yearbook in my personal collection, so I
am selling this copy to recover some of the money from my
donation. This yearbook is in like-new condition except for
several parallel scratches on the surface of the back cover.
The front cover and internal pages are in new condition with
no writing. This is a rare and valuable document about life
and culture in the former Panama Canal Zone. Many of the yearbooks from the Panama Canal Zone have
been digitized and are available as free downloadable JPGs
on the University
of Florida's archival website, but you cannot search the
text on graphics and reading jpegs on iBooks is not easy on
your eyes.. You can also purchase xerox copies of yearbooks
from Classmates.com for about $80, but it is much better to
purchase an original copy of this yearbook to keep in your
own collection.