1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Arches Gatun Lock Lake Panama Canal XAOA2 NGMA1 American Racing

American Racing

following the 1827 Winnebago War

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1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Arches Gatun Lock Lake Panama Canal XAOA2 NGMA1 American RacingThis is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of the arches at Gatun Lock along the Panama Canal, South America at the time of its 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 company from 1881