Panama Canal 50th Anniversary, Theodore Roosevelt

Panama Canal Zone · 1964 · 5c

This stamp commemorates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal. The design features a portrait of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who was instrumental in the canal's construction, alongside a depiction of the S.S. Ancon, the first ship to officially transit the canal in 1914.

Issued by the Canal Zone Postal Service, this stamp marks a half-century of the Panama Canal's operation, a monumental engineering feat that revolutionized global maritime trade by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.