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Bird's Eye View of Gatun Locks

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $8.95

Stock #:277660
Type: Postcard
City: Panama Canel Zone
Country: Panama
Postmark: 1915 Sep-2
Postmark City: Hoquim
Postmark State: WA
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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showing atlantic coast entrance to Panama Canal. The locks are built in parallet pairs so full vessels coming up one set can descend the other. In the three flights of locks the vessels will be lifted from sea level to Gatun Lake, a rise of 85 feet, all locks are uniform in construction being 1,000 feet long and 110 feet wide, 81 feet high. The leaves of the dock gates vary from 47 feet to 82 feet, according to locatgiona dn are 7 feet thick and 65 feet long

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