Canals / Robert J. Kapsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapsch, Robert J.

Series:

Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design, and engineering

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals--United States--History.

Canals.

Inland navigation--United States--History.

Inland navigation.

History.

United States.

Morris Canal (N.J.).

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.).

Local Subjects:

Morris Canal (N.J.).

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.).

Physical Description:

310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Title on CD-ROM: Images from Canals

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, Co., [2004]

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or Windows.

Summary:

A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation network, Canals describes the heyday of American canals, their development, and the varied structures they engendered, from locks and lockhouses to aqueducts, bridges, dams, and tunnels, as well as canal construction and engineering, life on and alongside the canals, and the fascinating machinery of canal operation. The book offers a capsule tour of the more than three dozen canals that by 1835 constituted the 2,500-mile system of canals from New England to the South and from the East Coast to the Midwest, and it provides a visual journey along two of the most famous: the Chesapeake and Ohio (now a national park) and the Morris Canal (largely lost to development). This volume in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series provides the largest single source of material for those interested in the fascinating history of the classical era of American canals (1785-1860), for those who wish to explore canals today, and for professionals engaged in preservation and rehabilitation of canals.

This treasury of photographs, illustrations, and plans of canals and their associated structures and environs, with captions that furnish relevant information about each image and the Library of Congress call number, is an essential reference for all aficionados of canal landscape and lore. The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality, downloadable versions of all the illustrations. It offers a direct link to the library's online, searchable catalogs and image files, including the hundreds of thousands of high-resolution photographs, measured drawings, and data files in the Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and other collections.

Contents:

Introduction: American canals

Canals across America

Canal structures

Morris Canal

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

About the CD-ROM.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Greenfield Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0393730883

0393106756