1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Bas Obispo Culebra Cut Panama Canal South XAOA2 XGXA5 from the Telegraph Station"

from the Telegraph Station"

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This explorer and his team later died on this journey

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1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Bas Obispo Culebra Cut Panama Canal South XAOA2 XGXA5 from the Telegraph Station"This is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of a steam shovel loading a dirt train during the excavation and construction of the Culebra Cut at Bas Obispo, Panama in South America during the building of the canal. 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,