Item CZYB28
This Item was Sold on 2 February
2015 for $38
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 1934 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of the
Panama Canal Zone in the town of New Cristobal (moved to
Coco Solo in 1960). The contents include faculty and student
activities for grades 9 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 good condition with only a few
signatures added by classmates. The yearbook is complete,
but the binding is starting to detach because of age. It is
still in very good condition considering its age and low
production costs for this depression era edition. 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.