Canal Zone to Australia
September 17, 1913(?)
This picture postcard was mailed from Pedro Miguel.
There is a single duplex cancel.
The Canal formally opened in August, 1914;
this postcard shows a construction picture of one of the locks.
The Canal was essentially complete when the locks were completed.
The Pedro Miguel
locks were on the Pacific side of the Gaillard (formerly Culebra)
Cut.
The town of Pedro
Miguel was a support center for the construction of
the canal and later (as a relocated smaller town) an operational center.
[Pedro Miguel
pictures]
The destination of the card was Newcastle, N.S.W.
Newcastle
is on the coast about 215 km northeast of Sydney.
There is a Sydney roller transit on the illustration side.
The date is not legible.
The card was franked with a 1912 2 c. CANAL ZONE Type
II
overprint of a vermilion and black Panamanian Balboa (Scott 39).
The message on the card is:
| Thelma:- I just received your letter today which I should have had last trip here. This is certainly a hot day here at Pedro Miguel. C.P.S. |