U.S. History: "Internal Improvements": Canals (19th c US)
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| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| A Short Bibliography for the Ohio Canal | n.d. | Html | Free | CanalSocOhio | |
| North American Canals [web site] | 1995- | Html | Free | Canals.com | |
| Ohio's Historic Canals [Maps; Bibliography] | n.d. | Html | Free | CanalSocOhio | |
| Pay as you go! or, The unconstitutionality of the 9 million debt bill demonstrated [canal bill] | 1851 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich | |
| Technology illustrated: Roads, bridges, canals, hydraulic engines...w/35 illus. | 1856 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich | |
| The practicability...of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic & Pacific oceans. History of the enterprise to th | 1855 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich | |
| Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 | Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal [fiction] | 1852 NY | Html | Free | URochester |
| Abert, John James, 1788-1863 | Report: [re] the canal to connect the Chesapeake & Ohio canal w/Baltimore | 1838 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Abert, Silvanus Thayer, 1828-1903 | Is a ship canal practicable? Notes upon the projected routes for an interoceanic ship canal betwn the Atlantic | 1872 Cinc. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Anon. | The Great Water Highway through New York State | 1829 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Bagby, George William | Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal [illus.; James River & Kanawha canal-navigat | 1879Richmnd | Html | Free | DocAmerSouth |
| Barnard, John Gross, 1815-82 | Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland; the improvement of navigation from Rotterdam to the sea; to the US A | 1872 GPO | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Barton, James L., d. 1869 | Commerce of the Lakes, & Erie canal, v 1 | 1851 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Barton, James L., d. 1869 | Commerce of the Lakes, & Erie canal, v 2 | 1851 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Boynton, H. | History of steam on the Erie canal. Appeal, extension of Act of April 1871 | 1873 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Campbell, William Wilfred (1858-1918) [? | The Life & Writings of De Witt Clinton | 1849 NY | Html | Free | URochester |
| Canada. Dept. of Public Works | Georgian Bay Ship Canal, 1908: typical views on the projected route | 1909 Ottawa | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| Canada. Dept. of Public Works | Georgian Bay Ship Canal: Report upon survey, with plans & estimates of cost, 1908 | 1909 Ottawa | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| Carey, Mathew] | Exhibit of the shocking oppression & injustice suffered for 16 mos by John Randel [Chesapeake & Delaware Cana | 1825 | Graphic Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Chicago. Committee on Statistics | Necessity of a ship-canal betwn East & West. Report: Comm. on Statistics, Chicago 1863 | 1863 Chi. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Clinton league for...the canal system | Proceedings: NY conventions for "rescuing the canals from the ruin...threatened" --exposing "the railroad cons | 1859 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Clinton, DeWitt | Memoir of DeWitt Clinton, w/appendix [of] numerous documents illus. the principal events of his life & of hist | 1829ca | Html | Free | URochester |
| Clinton, DeWitt ] | The Life & Writings of De Witt Clinton (ed. William W. Campbell) | 1849 NY | Html | Free | URochester |
| Colden, Cadwallader D. | Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the NY Canals [presented to the Mayor of NYC] | 1825 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Commercial Union of NY | Proceed. of the conv., Rochester 1870, for reforming...& improving the trade, NY canals | 1870 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Eddy, Caleb | Historical Sketch of the Middlesex Canal | 1843 Bost. | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Francis, James Bicheno, 1815-92 | Lowell hydraulic experiments...motors, flow of water over weirs, open canals, through orifices & diverging tub | 1868 2ed | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Fulton, Robert | A Treatise On the Improvement of Canal Navigation ... [illus.] | 1796 Lond. | Html | Free | URochester |
| Fulton, Robert | Letter from Robert Fulton to Pres. George Washington [re: suggests canal navigation between Philadelphia & La | 1797 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | The Second Crisis of America, or, A cursory view of the Peace lately concluded between Great Britain & the US | 1815 NY | PDF Kindle EPub | Free | UCalifornia |
| Gilpin, Joshua | A memoir on the rise, progress, and state of the Chesapeake & Delaware canal | 1821 | Graphic Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Hagner, Charles Valerius, 1796-1878 | Early history of the falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill & Lehigh navigation Co.; Fairmount waterworks | 1869 Phila. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Hawley, Merwin S | The Erie canal: its origin, success, & necessity. A paper, Buffalo Hist. Club, Feb 1868 | 1868] Buff. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Canal Boat [New-England Mag.] | 1835 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Hunt, Josiah, comp | Tables for computing excavation & embankment on RR & canals; for chains of 100 feet... | 1851 Prov. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Langbein, W. B. | Hydrology & Environmental Aspects of Erie Canal (1817-99) | 1976 Wash. | Html | Free | URochester |
| Mason, Roswell B. | The Georgian Bay Canal: reports of R B Mason, consulting engineer, & Kivas Tully, chief engineer, with an appe | 1858 Chi. | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| Mass. Gen. Court. J Comm. on Ship Canal | Report of the J Committee of 1860 Upon the Proposed Canal to Unite Barnstable & Buzzard's Bays | 1864 Bost. | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Massachusetts. Gen. Court. Joint comm. | Report: Joint comm. 1860; Canal to unite Barnstable & Buzzard's bays, resolves of the legis. [maps] | 1864 Bost. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| McKay, Hugh | Steam on the canals; report made to Hon. Peter Cooper | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| National Ship-Canal Conv. Chicago 1863 | Proceedings of the National ship-canal convention, Chicago 1863 | 1863 Chi. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| National Ship-Canal Conv. Chicago 1863 | Proceedings of the National Ship-Canal Convention, Held at ... Chicago, June 2 & 3, 1863 | 1863 Chi | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Niles, Nathaniel, 1835-1917 | Plan for the construction of a ship canal betwn the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, Cent. Amer. | 1868 NY | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| North-West Transport., Navigation & RR C | Memoranda & prospectus of the North-West Transportation & Land Company [inland navigation; monopoles] | 1858Toronto | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| NY (State) | State of NY Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on The Barge Canal | 1961 | Html | Free | URochester |
| NY (State) Canal Board | Report of the Canal board in relation to Honeoye, Conesus & other lakes. 1850 [maps] | 1858 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State) Canal dept | Circular to superintendents of canal repairs [illus.] | 1854 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State) Canal Investigating Comm. | Report of the Canal investigating commission, v1 | 1876 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State) Canal Investigating Comm. | Report of the Canal investigating commission, v2 | 1876 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State) Comm. Enlargement of canals f | Report: April 1862, in respect to the enlargement of the canals for national purposes | 1863 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State) State Engineer & Surveyor | Documentary sketch of NY State canals, by S.H. Sweet, engineer, 1862 [maps; illus.] | 1863 Albany | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| NY (State)-Canal Investigation Commissio | Millions of the People's Dollars Lost! A Startling Array of Facts ... Fraus Investigation Comm. | n.d. | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| NY Steam Cable Towing Co. | The Belgian system, cable towing,...the use of steam on the canals & cheap transportation | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Ontario. Assembly. Comm. on the Welland | Rpt, Comm. the Commons House ... [re] the Welland Canal, w/Letter of J.B. Yates, to Said Committee | 1834 | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Palmer, Henry Spencer 1838-1893 | Report of a journey of survey, from Victoria to Fort Alexander via North Bentinck Arm [intracoastal waterways | 1987 | Graphic | Free | UCalgary |
| Quick, Herbert (1861-1925) | American Inland Waterways, their Relation to Railway Transportation & to the National Welfare: thier Creation, | 1909 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Richardson, Richard | Memoir of Josiah White. Intro. of anthracite coal & iron, & constr. of canals, RR, in Pa. [illus.] | 1873 Phila. | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Rutherford, John 1760-1840 | Facts & observations in relation to the origin & completion of the Erie canal | 1825 NY | Html | Free | URochester |
| Seymour, St. John Drelincourt (Capt.) | The Isthmian routes: Each projected route...the comparative advantages, 1856-1861 | 1863 NY | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Springer, Ethel M. | Canal-Boat Children (Monthly Labor Review) | 1923 Wash. | Html | Free | URochester |
| Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Documents to prove the advantages of RR & steam carriages over canal navigation | 1812/1852 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Stuckle, Henri | Interoceanic canals, The question of location for a ship canal across the Amer. continent [maps] | 1870 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Turnbull, William, 1800-57 | Reports: Construction of the piers of the aqueduct, Alexandria canal, across the Potomac Georgetown | 1873 GPO | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Turner, Orsamus | Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western NY: Account of Ancient Remains..Iroquois..1812...E | 1850 | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| U.S. | 1903: Convention for Construction of a Ship Canal (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty), November 18 | 1903 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law |
| U.S. Navy Dept | Reports: Expl. & surveys: practicability of a ship-canal betw the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, by the way of the | 1872 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| U.S. War Dept | Report:...Michler's survey for an inter-oceanic ship canal near the Isthmus of Darien | 1861 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Univ of Rochester Dept of History | History of the Erie Canal [under construction] | 1996- | Html | Free | URochester |
| Venable, Wallace | Canals & Inland Waterways of the US [web site] | 2001- | Html | Free | WVAUniv |
| Walls, Josiah T 1842- | Speech of Hon. Josiah T. Walls...of Florida: before the ... US Senate, Jan 28, 1874, advocating the constructi | 1874 | Graphic PDF | Free | UFlorida |
| Whitford, Noble E | History of the Barge Canal of New York State | 1921 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Whitford, Noble E | History of the Canal System of...New York...w/Brief Histories of Canals of the US & Canada [illus.] | 1905 | Html | Free | URochester |
| Wilber, Mark D., b. 1829 | Speech of Mark D. Wilber, Mich. Senate, 1873, advocating construction of the ship canal... | 1873 Lansng | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
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