Panama Canal

Unknown maker of this non-interlocking press board puzzle.  While simply cut (crooked line strips), it is not as easy as you think to line up the pieces correctly.  Artist is A. F. Bishop.  Albert F. Bishop was an artist for Scientific American magazine.  He generally signed paintings with a monogram, an "A" and "F" intertwined with an anchor.  He signed this painting “A. F. Bishop.”  Bishop was born in Connecticut in 1855 and is believed to have been active until at least 1927.   He is well known for his paintings of ocean liners as lithographs on tin.  These colorful lithographs were mounted on the walls of steamship agencies during the 19-teens and 1920s.  SSHSA.org