Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: rising smoke as two West Indian men burn grass away from the side of a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.

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1910
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565940i
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Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: rising smoke as two West Indian men burn grass away from the side of a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The American Government funded the renovation of roads and buildings and general sanitary works in Panama while the Panama Canal was under construction

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1910

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 21.6 x 17.6 cm

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Burning grass from side of ditch. Crude oil used as fuel. Miraflores, Canal Zone, June 1910

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Wellcome Collection 565940i

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