The Panama guide
A 1912 guide to Panama published at Mount Hope in the Canal Zone by the Quartermaster's Department of the Isthmian Canal Commission, aimed at visitors and residents. The pictures include a rotated plan of Panama City from a 1671 Spanish-archive map, a stone archway courtyard, a palm-lined street, and a rotated view of a wooden framed structure; a designer might take from them the contrast between old colonial stonework and early twentieth-century tropical streetscapes, plus the plan's dense linear city grid.
