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Aero view of the Panama Canal, looking southwest, The world's greatest engineering feat to be realized 395 years after first proposed

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Relief shown pictorially. Includes distance tables. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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poole brothers. 1912. Aero view of the Panama Canal, looking southwest, The world's greatest engineering feat to be realized 395 years after first proposed. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011590002/

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