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    Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal
    Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal
    Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal
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    Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal

    By Joseph Pennell

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    THE idea of going to Panama to make lithographs of the Canal was mine. I suggested it, and the Century Magazine and Illustrated London News offered to print some of the drawings I might make.

    Though I suggested the scheme a couple of years ago, it was not until January, 1912, that I was able to go—and then I was afraid it was too late—afraid the work was finished and that there would be nothing to see, for photographs taken a year or eighteen months before, showed some of the locks built and their gates partly in place.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublisher s11838
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9786050383027
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      Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal - Joseph Pennell

      Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama

      Canal

      By

      Joseph Pennell

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION—MY LITHOGRAPHS OF THE PANAMA CANAL

      I. COLON: THE AMERICAN QUARTER

      II. MOUNT HOPE

      III. GATUN: DINNER TIME

      IV. AT THE BOTTOM OF GATUN LOCK

      V. THE GUARD GATE, GATUN

      VI. APPROACHES TO GATUN LOCK

      VII. END OF THE DAY—GATUN LOCK

      VIII. THE JUNGLE THE OLD RAILROAD FROM THE NEW

      IX. THE NATIVE VILLAGE

      X. THE AMERICAN VILLAGE

      XI. THE CUT AT BAS OBISPO

      XII. IN THE CUT AT LAS CASCADAS

      XIII. THE CUT FROM CULEBRA

      XIV. STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN THE CULEBRA CUT

      XV. THE CUT—LOOKING TOWARD CULEBRA

      XVI. THE CUT AT PARAISO

      XVII. THE CUT LOOKING TOWARD ANCON HILL

      XVIII. LAYING THE FLOOR OF PEDRO MIGUEL LOCK

      XIX. THE GATES OF PEDRO MIGUEL

      XX. THE WALLS OF PEDRO MIGUEL

      XXI. BUILDING MIRAFLORES LOCK

      XXII. CRANES—MIRAFLORES LOCK

      XXIII. WALLS OF MIRAFLORES LOCK

      XXIV. OFFICIAL ANCON

      XXV. FROM ANCON HILL

      XXVI. THE CATHEDRAL, PANAMA

      XXVII. THE CITY OF PANAMA FROM THE TIVOLI HOTEL, ANCON

      XXVIII. THE MOUTH OF THE CANAL FROM THE SEA

      INTRODUCTION—MY LITHOGRAPHS OF THE PANAMA CANAL

      THE idea of going to Panama to make lithographs of the Canal was mine. I suggested it, and the Century Magazine and Illustrated London News offered to print some of the drawings I might make.

      Though I suggested the scheme a couple of years ago, it was not until January, 1912, that I was able to go—and then I was afraid it was too late—afraid the work was finished and that there would be nothing to see, for photographs taken a year or eighteen months before, showed some of the locks built and their gates partly in place.

      Still I started, and after nearly three weeks of voyaging found, one January morning, the Isthmus of Panama ahead of the steamer, a mountainous country, showing deep valleys filled with mist, like snow fields, as I have often seen them from Montepulciano looking over Lake Thrasymene, in Italy. Beyond were higher peaks, strange yet familiar, Japanese prints, and as we came

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