Item CZYB34
This Item was Sold on 2 July 2018
for $10
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 1968 Conquistador yearbook from Canal Zone
College, located on the Pacific side of the isthmus of the
old Panama Canal Zone in the town of La Boca, just under the
foundation of the Bridge of the Americas. It is in new
condition with no writing inside. There are a couple of
small marks on the back cover and some yellowing from age on
a couple of the front and back inside pages. Otherwise, it
is in mint condition. This yearbook has everything that you
would find in a typical yearbook from an American high
school or college, plus more. The Canal Zone College was a
two year institution and it served the function of a junior
college for American [and Panamanian] students who
planned to go to college and obtain their college degrees in
the USA. Some of the students obtained apprenticeships and
stayed in the Canal Zone. The Canal Zone College had sports
teams that competed against the American high schools,
Cristobal High School and Balboa high School. When I was a
student at Cristobal High School, we occasionally went to
the Canal Zone College for music programs, just to get away
from the Atlantic side for a one day field trip. If you look
at the photo below, you will see a large two page spread on
the inside of both the front and rear covers. The photo
depicts the Canal Zone College as I remembered it in the
1960s. I did not attend CZC, but a lot of my friends did and
this yearbook was issued the same year that I graduated from
Cristobal High School, so I knew a lot of the students who
are in this yearbook. In addition to sections on faculty and
students, you will find a lot of photos of sporting events
and other activities in the Canal Zone. As with most Canal
Zone yearbooks, there are cool advertisements in the back:
United Fruit Company, Squirt, Gulf Oil, Esso Oil and local
businesses that you will remember if you lived on the
Pacific side of the Panama Canal Zone in the 1960s. This yearbook was part of the Panama Canal Museum
archives. When the museum 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. 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.