Image of a landscape view of a village of thatched-roof huts at the summit of the Continental Divide in Culebra, Panama, with a busy scene of workers and pack mules, and a passenger train moving through the center of the image with a steam locomotive, labeled "Isthmus" on the boiler, and a first car labeled "U. S. Mails / Specie"; the buildings have the signage: "This way gentlemen ... I am going to old Joe Princes" and "American Hotel." Single-color print. "C. Parsons Lith."--text, bottom left margin. "Sketched from nature by F.N. Otis M. D. Surgeon in U. S. M. Steamship Co's. Service."--text, bottom center margin. "Printed by Endicott & Co. N. Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to Act of Congres [sic] by F. N. Otis 1854, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 35.4 x 45.24 cm (13 15/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Culebra (Chilibre, Panama)--Pictorial works Views--Panama--Culebra (Chilibre)--19th century Landscapes--Panama--Pictorial works Postal service--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Railway mail service--United States--Pictorial works Foreign Panama Railroad Co Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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