1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Miraflores Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XAKA8 Stryker Seminary

Stryker Seminary

This is an original 1897 black and white wood engraving of a pen drawing of a woman holding a parasol

"The Madonna of the Goldfinch

Colonel Weldon

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1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Miraflores Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XAKA8 Stryker SeminaryThis is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of the construction cranes that were used to build the Miraflores Lock along 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 official, the first stage of construction was began by a French