1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Guard Gate Gatun Lock Panama Canal XAOA2 XGEC9 water sports

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with music by Georges Bizet and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Two young soldiers are seen walking past him

1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Guard Gate Gatun Lock Panama Canal XAOA2 XGEC9 water sportsThis is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of the Guard Gate of the Gatun Lock in the Panama Canal in South America while it was still under construction. The Panama Canal is a roughly 50 mile long ship canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Although the first canal route was proposed as early as 1534 by a Spanish colonial official, the first stage of construction was began by a French