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Private Bernard A. Cook, “The Torso” of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, Flexes a Muscle for Corporal Hal Hannan in a Harbor Defense Gun Battery, 1945, II.2019.999.516, Gift of Bradley Wilde
Caricatures of Men for the Draft, 1944
K-Pasa A.P.O.825 Officers Club, 2016.26.3, Gift of Ruth Galleher
Notice of Right to Appeal Draft, 1943
2002.008.029, Gift of Martha J. Anderson
Dick Conley, Building a Bomb Shelter for Family Quarters Facing Dovman St. Balboa Flats, 1942, 2004.007.011.003, Gift of Pat Beall
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Men’s Expectations and Realities
Canal operations were considered vital to the war effort, so many of the men who worked for the Canal were not drafted or permitted to enlist for military service. They were already doing their part by running the Canal smoothly as a necessary resource for the Allied Powers. Similar to women, they were also caricaturized and scrutinized in circulating materials and expected to be hyper-masculine.
This online exhibition is based on the exhibition of the same name that was presented at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, March 7, 2020 - February 26, 2021.
Curated by Elizabeth A. Bouton with assistance from Elizabeth Bemis | Online design by Elizabeth A. Bouton
Student assistant curators: Summer Bias, Coral Dixon, Sean O’Dwyer, and Anna L. Weissman | Title design and other materials by Olivia Bowman
This exhibit was developed spring 2019 as part of the graduate Exhibitions Seminar in Museum Studies taught by Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler. It was driven by student inquiry and has been an experiment in collaborative exhibition development processes.
Unless otherwise noted, all items are from the Panama Canal Museum Collection, Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.