A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm a Catholic priest tells Beadle

a Catholic priest tells Beadle John Bull that the Fenians should have listened to him

Chief of the Blackfoot nation

showing the Old Jewellery Mart public house with figures

Inscribed in print and pencil

St Catherine

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm a Catholic priest tells BeadleA lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80