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Monday, 26 September 2005

Hercules takes on Panama


A poster from 1912 celebrating the construction of the Panama Canal--a magnificent engineering achievement, and one of my favourite stories of human accomplishment. The poster depicts the construction as 'The 13th Labour of Hercules.'
[Hat tip SOLO]
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2 comments:

  1. Don26 Sept 2005, 04:21:00

    Great poster. Indeed, a print would not be inappropriate in my office, given the effort I am regularly exhorted to make. The Panama Pacific Exhibition is still remembered in Maybeck's magnificent Palace of Fine Arts, a popular backdrop for tourists in the City. In a museum in a small mining town in Northern California is a photograph of my great-grandfather visiting that exhibition -- and that museum is almost identical to the museum in Arrowtown in your South Island, both towns having coincident gold-mining histories. (Connections are fun.)

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  2. Peter Cresswell26 Sept 2005, 07:11:00

    Hi Hippolyte,

    They're not cheap, but Cordair Art in Burlingame, California, do have "limited edition prints" available.

    http://www.cordair.com/nahl/index.aspx

    :-)

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