A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm A lone policeman is depicted

A lone policeman is depicted as trying to deal with vagrants

St Catherine

Shelagh McGrath

Interior of an Eighth Avenue subway carriage

showing the Old Jewellery Mart public house with figures

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm A lone policeman is depictedA 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