Panama Canal Opening 25th Anniversary

Panama · 1939 · 2c

This stamp commemorates the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal. The central vignette features a steamship, the SS Ancon, passing through the Gaillard Cut, a significant section of the canal. The design is framed by portraits of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on the left and Panamanian President Manuel Amador Guerrero on the right, recognizing their key roles in the canal's creation.

Issued in 1939, this stamp celebrates a quarter-century of the Panama Canal's operation, a monumental engineering feat that revolutionized global trade routes by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.