1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Railroad Lake Gatun Panama South America XAOA2 Vintage Toys secretary to Randolph Sevier

secretary to Randolph Sevier

Mauser Building 298 Fifth Avenue New York

Nippon Yusen Kaisha

an American movie actress of the early 1930's

1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Railroad Lake Gatun Panama South America XAOA2 Vintage Toys secretary to Randolph SevierThis is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of the temporary railroad line that ran through the tropical jungle from Gatun to the Culebra Cut at Bas Obispo during the construction of the Panama Canal in South America. 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