Item CZYB49
This Item was Sold on 12 April
2015 for $110
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 1979 Zonian yearbook from Balboa High School,
located in the town of Balboa on the Pacific side of the
former Canal Zone on the isthmus of Panama. This yearbook is
in used, but excellent condition. The binding and pages are
in mint condition and there is a protective plastic outer
cover. There is a greeting message on the first internal
page and the rest of the yearbook looks like new with no
writing Please view the photos below to see the condition of
representative pages. The advertisements are really great
and are one of the highlights of this yearbook. They bring
back memories of what life was like on the Pacific side of
the former Panama Canal Zone. This yearbook was part of the Panama Canal Museum
archives. When the museum closed, 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. 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 ( CHS
; BHS
), 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.