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Photographer: Courtesy Rollins College, Olin Library Archives
Caption: Marker detail: Canal Illustration
Additional Description: This detail of a 1930s illustration shows how a canal would shorten shipping routes. After German U-boat attacks off Florida's coast, canal boosters argued that the canal was necessary to keep American ships out of harm's way during wartime.
Submitted: February 12, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p568806
File Size: 3.799 Megabytes

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