This postcard from ca. 1912-1915 shows the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as two women kissing each other with the Panama Canal between them. It tells the fascinating story of the construction of the canal, one of the world’s great technological achievements, in numbers. A very expensive kiss that was…
The Kiss of the Oceans
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