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Enterprising waters : the history and art of New York's Erie Canal / Brad L. Utter ; with Ashley Hopkins-Benton, and Karen Quinn ; foreword by Thomas X. Grasso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Utter, Brad L., author.
- Hopkins-Benton, Ashley, author.
- Quinn, Karen E., author.
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Erie Canal (N.Y.)-History.
- Erie Canal (N.Y.)--History.
- Erie Canal (N.Y.).
- Erie Canal Region (N.Y.)--History.
- Erie Canal Region (N.Y.).
- Erie Canal (N.Y.)--In art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (434 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : Excelsior Editions, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Enterprising Waters chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today. Brings together a wide variety of canal artifacts from museums, libraries, archives, & private collectors. The Erie Canal directed the course of New York and American history. When completed in 1825, the engineering marvel unlocked the Western interior for trade and settlement. Boomtowns sprang up along the canal's path and New York City grew to be the nation's most powerful center of international trade. The book celebrates the story of the Erie Canal from the earliest calls for internal improvements to today. Themes of politics, engineering, commerce, and life on the canal are paired with images of artifacts, documents, and images"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Enterprising Waters Lenders
- Art of the Erie Canal Lenders
- Introduction Enterprising Waters: New York's Erie Canal
- Introduction Art of the Erie Canal
- Part I Before the Canal
- Improved Waterways
- Philip Schuyler (1733-1804)
- William Weston (1763-1833)
- Early Supporters of an Inland Canal
- Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
- The War of 1812
- Part II Clinton's Ditch
- The Politics and Funding of Internal Improvements
- De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)
- Choosing the Route
- A State-Run Enterprise
- Myron Holley (1779-1841)
- Settling the Land: Acquisition and Dispossession
- An Engineering Marvel
- James Eights (American, 1798-1882)
- Who Built the Canal?
- The Engineers
- Benjamin Wright (1770-1842)
- James Geddes (1763-1838)
- Canvass White (1790-1834)
- John B. Jervis (1795-1885)
- The Laborers
- Conquering the Niagara Escarpment
- Celebrating Early Achievements
- Wedding of the Waters
- Early Commerce and Industry
- Industrial Growth
- Canal Warehouses
- The Windlass and H. G. Root &
- Company
- H. G. Root &
- Moving Goods: The Boats That Made It Happen
- Canal Stores
- Grocery List From the 1890s
- The Canal and the Hudson in the Age of Steam
- Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
- New Ports and Boomtowns
- New Luxuries
- Life on the Canal
- The Boat Crew
- Mule Drivers
- Families on the Water
- Smooth Operations
- Travel and Adventure on the Erie Canal
- The Packet Boat: A Floating Hotel
- Crowd at Schenectady Getting on Packet
- Low Bridges on the Canal
- Winter on the Canal
- Immigration Corridor
- Canal Fever
- Champlain Canal
- Between Cohoes/Waterford and Whitehall, 1822-present
- Cayuga and Seneca Canal
- Between Montezuma and Geneva, 1828-present
- Oswego Canal
- Between Syracuse and Oswego, 1829-present.
- Other Canals
- Part III The Enlarged Canal
- The Politics of the Enlargement
- Construction and Engineering of the Enlargement
- Who Built the Enlarged Canal?
- David Vaughan (ca. 1803-1865), draftsman
- Squire Whipple (1804-1888), engineer
- Holmes Hutchinson (1794-1865), engineer
- Commerce and Industry: Industrialization and Agriculture
- From Flour City to Flower City
- W. H. Farrar &
- Company: The Beginnings of Syracuse China
- Mother of Cities
- The Rise of Railroads
- The Age of Social Reform
- The Second Great Awakening
- Abolition
- Women's Suffrage
- Temperance
- The Civil War
- Ely S. Parker (1828-1895)
- Decline of the Canal
- The 9 Million Act
- Part IV The Barge Canal
- The Politics of the Barge Canal
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
- Building the Barge Canal
- Who Built the Barge Canal?
- Barge Canallers
- Evamay Mosseau Wilkins (1920-2006)
- Federal Control During World War I
- Boats of the Barge Canal
- Commerce and Industry on the Canal in the Twentieth Century
- General Electric Company
- John E. Matton &
- Sons Shipyard
- Part V Today's Erie Canal
- The Canal's Legacy: Art, Advertising, and Community Pride
- The Erie Canal Today
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438478272
- 1438478275
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