The Snapshots in Time Collection

United Fruit Company Building, New Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, 1937

United Fruit Company Building, New Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, 1937

Street view of the United Fruit Company building in New Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, photographed in 1937. The arcaded structure, framed by royal palms, served as a hub of the company's extensive banana trade operations, which shaped the economy and infrastructure of the Canal Zone during the early twentieth century. Project: 218476