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Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama
Canal
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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