Panoramic photograph of the Culebra Cut excavation, Panama Canal – Vintage Wall Art
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Step back in time with Panoramic photograph of the Culebra Cut excavation, Panama Canal, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Panoramic photograph of the Culebra Cut excavation, Panama Canal
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The Culebra Cut, the roughly eight-mile channel slicing through the Continental Divide, was the most grueling stretch of the Panama Canal, and this panoramic view captures the scale of the excavation that Theodore Roosevelt's administration pushed to completion. Roosevelt took a personal interest in the project after the United States assumed control of the French effort, and he visited the isthmus in 1906 to see the work firsthand. Landslides and the sheer volume of rock and earth removed made the cut one of the defining engineering challenges of the era, and the long, wide frame lets you read the terraced banks and the machinery working the floor below.
| Original scan | 5,400 × 956 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PANAMA 1909 Culebra Cut, Rio Grande |
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