Item CZYB40
This Item was Sold on 8 August
2018 for $26
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 1940 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of the
Panama Canal Zone in the town of Cristobal. This is an over
sized yearbook with the cover dimensions of 13.5" X 9.5".
The contents include the faculty, freshmen through senior
students and then every issue of the school's " Trade Wind "
publication from October 1939 through May 1940. The end of
the yearbook has cool ads for familiar places like the
Tivoli Hotel and the United Fruit Company and drinks like
Coca Cola and Orange Crush. The " Trade Wind " was a
newspaper that covered school and local events including
news about sports, school functions and photos. Fascinating
reading for anyone who attended Panama Canal Zone schools or
is interested in the history of Panama during this period. I
was delighted to find three of my teachers in this yearbook
- Mr. Paul Beck who was the Principal when I attended CHS,
Mr. Carl Maedl who was also a Principal at CHS and Mr.
Oswald Jorstad who taught me how to play the Clarinet in
1961. Some of my classmates' parents are listed in this
yearbook. The cover has wear, but it is otherwise in
remarkably good condition. The binding is in excellent
condition. The pages are starting to yellow, but are
otherwise in very good condition. There is no writing on the
pages, so this may have been an unused reference copy for
the Panama Canal Zone School System.. A rare and very
collectable document about the history of the Panama Canal
Zone. 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.