Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering

By Robert J. Kapsch

A richly illustrated history of America's fist 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, ad 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 esesntial 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.

W.W. Norton, in association with the Library of Congress
Hardcover, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 310 pages, over 550 black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 0-393-73088-3

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