1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Gatun Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XEI6 1507 Pennsylvania Ave

1507 Pennsylvania Ave

Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice

This is an original 1877 black and white woodcut of the "Insurrection of Ghent

Blake for Columbia Pictures

1913 Print Joseph Pennell Art Gatun Lock Panama Canal Construction XAOA2 XEI6 1507 Pennsylvania AveThis is an original 1913 black and white halftone print of a lithograph by Joseph Pennell of a construction crew being lifted out from their workstations at the end of the day in the Gatun 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