Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama canal: reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the isthmus of Panama, January-March, 1912 (1912)
e right. Beyond are the outer walls and approachesof the upper lock, and beyond these, but unseen, the lake.At the bottom is the railroad and the temporary openingshown in the previous drawing. The scale, the immensityof the whole may be judged by the size of the engines andfigures. I have never… … VIAPPROACHES TO GATUN LOCK VI APPROACHES TO GATUN LOCK THESE huge arches, only made as arches to save con-crete and to break the waves of the lake, are mightierthan any Roman aqueduct, and more pictorial, yet soon theywill be hidden almost to the top by the waters of the lake.Electric locomotives…
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