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Lower Gatun Lock, Panama Canal

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $5.95
Original Price: $11.95

Stock #:344835
Type: Postcard
Country: Panama
Postmark: 1915
Postmark City: Lamoille
Postmark State: MN
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Mr. Harry Smith
Smith, MN

Additional Details:
Lower Gatun Lock, seven miles from the Atlantic entrance to the canal. There are three double locks at Gatun to allow the passage of vessels in both directions. Each set of three will lift a vessel 85 feet, from the Atlantic sea level to the level of Gatun Lake. The locks are about one and one-third miles long, of solid concrete, and form the largest concrete structure in the world. About 2,000,000 yards of concrete will be used

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