Plant and material of the Panama Canal
A plate-numbered 1888 American Society of Civil Engineers publication, issued for engineers and contractors, cataloguing the plant and materials used in building the Panama Canal. Its pictures are black-and-white line engravings, printed sideways across the page, showing excavating machinery, dredges, trestles and rail cars at work along the cut. A designer might take from them the dense hatched linework and the heavy industrial machinery silhouettes of the period.
