that is a person from gallacia, spain, the part of spain i come from. so it got my attention, the three photographs. and through those photographs, i wrote a book about the workers working on the panama canal. there were as i said, almost 12,000. i would say that maybe 12,000 spaniards. maybe 75% from gallecia, from my home region. in the u.s., i will say the panama canal was a fixation in the u.s. because when the panama canal was started, the american frontier was already conquered. so panama became the new frontier. the building of the panama became the new frontier. so in the u.s., there was a lot of fascination with the building of the canal and how the work was progressing at different stages. so there was a tremendous, a tremendous pride. but this is part of the american consciousness. >> on the table we have a sample of our sheet music relating to the panama canal. all published around the time of the opening of the canal. what it represents is an american popular phenomenon, that when something happens that captured the public's imagination, ei