This photograph shows the historic waterfront of Panama City as seen by visiting American sailors in the early 1900s. A group of shipmates in shore-going civilian dress pose near a wall damaged by the tropics' harsh climate, with the harbor's fleet of local sailing schooners crowding the background. Such images were common souvenirs for Navy personnel during the Spanish-American War/Great White Fleet era (circa 1898-1910s), a period when American warships regularly called at Panama during construction of the canal. Project: 218600