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Author : James William Putnam
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : A. Berle Clemensen
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Canals
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Author : John D. Peine
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Canals
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Author : Emily Harris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0252067142
Exhibition guide on the traveling photography exhibition and subsequent book titled Prairie Passage, by Edward Ranney.
Author : Illinois. Division of Waterways
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Canals
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Author : Illinois. Canal Commissioners
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Canals
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Author : Robert David Ochs
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.)
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Author : David A. Belden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738582972
Pictures and histories of canals in northeastern Illinois.
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : Jim Redd
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809316601
Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs—weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today—Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle. In order to understand the whole of what the canal means now and what it has meant, Redd looks at and photographs the present, an old ruin of a canal out of use for half of a century. But he also sees the beginning, the time before the glaciers inched south—contemplating the two hundred years when the "ice flowing from the north just balanced the melting loss" when "the moving ice was like a continental conveyer belt, dumping tons of entrained rubble and granite from as far away as the Canadian Shield." He envisions the trappers, travelers, and traders who crossed the terrain—this vast mud lake. He brings back the days when Père Jacques Marquette brought the Jesuit message to the frontier. Redd also tells what the canal did for the region, how it bolstered Chicago from a town of twelve hundred at the time of the 1836 groundbreaking ceremony to a city of seventy-four thousand after six years of operation in 1854. During the peak traffic—from the 1860s through the 1880s—more than five million tons of freight passed through the canal, generating a million dollars in tolls and opening a trade route from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico.