[Steam shovel at work in the Culebra Cut]

Prints shows a steam shovel emptying into train cars to excavate the Panama Canal.
[His Panama Canal series] Wuerth, 232. Edition of 50. Signed on stone and in pencil. (Source: Beall)
Title from Joseph Pennell's pictures of the wonder of work.
Place of creation based on Pennell's residence at the time of the print's creation.
American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 384.
LC purchase.
Published in: Joseph Pennell's pictures of the wonder of work / Joseph Pennell. Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1916, plate XIV.