Item CZYB54
This Item was Sold on 22 Mrch 2017
for $165
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 1919 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of
Panama in the American Canal Zone town of Cristobal. This is
the second yearbook issued for this school with only 10
teachers, less than 50 students total. The contents include
faculty and student activities. The end of the yearbook has
cool advertisements from familiar places in Colon and on the
Atlantic side of the former Panama Canal Zone. Go
Tigers! This yearbook is very rare. I don't think the the Panama
Canal Museum archives has a copy of this issue. It was the
office copy for Cristobal High School. There is light wear
from gentle handling and no writing on any of the internal
pages. The binding is in very nice condition, but there is a
light stain on the front cover. Overall, this copy is in
very nice condition. 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.