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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Philippe Bunau-Varilla papers, 1877-1955 (bulk 1900-1907)</title>
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    <namePart>Bunau-Varilla, Philippe</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1859-1940</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal records, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning Bunau-Varilla's activities in the United States (1900-1907), his efforts relating to the Panama Canal, and his role in the Panamanian revolution and as minister plenipotentiary for the new government.  Includes material pertaining to the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty of 1903 and an eyewitness account of volcanic activity in Nicaragua in 1902.  Correspondents include Manuel Amador Guerrero, John Bigelow, Theodore E. Burton, Gustave Eiffel, William Crawford Gorgas, Mark Alonzo Hanna, John Hay, J.J. Jusserand, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Panamanian diplomat and engineer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in French and English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amador Guerrero, Manuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bigelow, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1911</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1929</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eiffel, Gustave</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gorgas, William Crawford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hanna, Marcus Alonzo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1904</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1905</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1932</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lesseps, Ferdinand de</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Panama.</namePart>
      <namePart>1903 November 18.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Canals, Interoceanic</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, Panamanian</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Volcanoes</topic>
    <geographic>Nicaragua</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1903</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>United States</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1903-1946</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama Canal (Panama)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>Panama</temporal>
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    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Engineers</occupation>
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