1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Miraflores Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XAKA8 independent tobacco buyer of Lexington

independent tobacco buyer of Lexington

also known as Belem Tower

standing on top of a serpent and a lion

Stryker Seminary

picket fences

1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Miraflores Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XAKA8 independent tobacco buyer of LexingtonThis 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