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The end of the day, Gatun Lock
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · 1912
"As I looked a whistle blew. Every one instantly dropped their tools, and long lines of little figures marched away or climbed wooden stairs and iron ladders to the top; and from the depths a long chain rose and clinging to the end of it, grouped as Cellina would have loved to group them, were a dozen men swinging up to the surface - the most decorative, yet real, motive in the Wonder of Work I had ever seen. No one could imagine it, - and I had only a minute to se it." J[oseph] P[ennell].
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