Maps Gallery

Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama Canal

The Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project, also bearing full statistics including length, width and cost of the project. Likely to date from the opening of the canal in 1914. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Map, Plan of the Panama Canal, 19th Century

Vintage engraving of a Map, Plan of the Panama Canal, 19th Century. An artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade

© of Duncan P Walker

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Lufthansa airlines in Latin America by G. H. Davis

German threat to America and Panama: Lufthansa airlines in Latin America. A map showing how German-controlled airlines, capable of a converging war movement against the Panama Canal, were rivalling Pan-American Airways services in South America during the Second World War. Date: 1941

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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