Schuylkill navigation collection [electronic resource] Reading Area Community College

Format:

Datafile

Author/Creator:

Reading Area Community College (Reading, Pa.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schuylkill Canal (Pa.).

Canals--Pennsylvania.

Canals.

Physical Description:

8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Schuylkill navigation project

Place of Publication:

Reading, PA : Reading Area Community College, c2001.

System Details:

System requirements not specified.

Contents:

Disc 1: First reach - Delaware River to Fairmount Pool; second reach - Manayunk to Flat Rock Dam (small drawings)

Disc 2: second reach - Manayunk to Flat Rock Dam (large drawings)

Disc 3: third reach - Conshohocken to Plymouth Dam; fourth reach - Norristown/Bridgeport to Catfish Dam

Disc 4: fifth reach - Oakes Canal from Pawling's Dam to Black Rock Dam; sixth reach - Vincent Canal lock 75 to lock 60

Disc 5: seventh reach - Girard Canal lock 57 to lock 50; eighth reach - lock 50 (Big Reading Dam) to lock 45 (Kissinger's Dam)

Disc 6: ninth reach - lock 45 to lock 36 in Leesport; tenth reach - Hamburg Canal from Leesport to Kernsville Dam; eleventh reach - Kernsville Dam to Blue Mountain Dam; twelfth reach - Above Blue Mountain Dam

Disc 7: A section - maps of entire system or large portions of the canal

Disc 8: B section - boat drawings and blueprints; BB section - bowstring bridges - drawings and blueprints; M section - mechanical drawings; S section - scows, plans and drawings.

OCLC:

48432532