The Snapshots in Time Collection
Reverse of Photograph: 'Stuffed Alligator, Front Street, Colon, R.P.' -- Handwritten Caption, 1937
The reverse of a 1937 souvenir photograph from Colon, Republic of Panama, bearing a handwritten caption describing a 15-foot stuffed alligator displayed outside a shop selling alligator-skin leather goods on Front Street. Such taxidermied displays were common attractions in Panama Canal Zone port towns during the interwar era. Project: 218476