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Drawing

Process of Excavation, Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri...
Drawing

Deep Cutting Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of boats being towed by horses through the Erie Canal at Lockport Erie Canal at Lockport. The horses can be seen on a high towpath at right. ...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Louisville & Portland Canal

Date: 1828
Description: Map of the Louisville and Portland Canal on the Ohio River. The map shows Louisville, Shippingsport, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Gravel Island, Corn Islan...
Magazine or Periodical

Going Straight Through the Mountain

Date: 08 1892
Description: Engraving, probably after a photograph, showing Frank Lenz posing with his safety bicycle near the stone arch entrance of a canal tunnel cut through a moun...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1886
Description: View across water towards the George Whiting Paper Mill on the Lawson Canal.

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