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Title: Thomas Jefferson Handwritten Document
Date: 1819-05-30
Description: 1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.

Title: Vicksburg Canal
Date: 1863-04-04
Description: Break in the Mississippi Levee near the canal at Vicksburg.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]; and Cutting away the dam at the head of the Vicksburg Canal.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]

Title: Addreess of Wm. Baxter Before the American Institute (Polytechnic Department) April 16. 1874.
Date: 1874-04-16
Description: Presentation of a paper by Mr. Baxter regarding the use of steam on United States canals.

Title: The Charters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road Companies; Direct Route From St. Louis Through Vincennes to Cincinnati
Date: 1851
Description: An Act to Incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, Granted By the Legislatures of the Seats of Illinois, Indiana, And Ohio, With By-Laws

Title: Report of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, to the Stockholders. January 5, 1846.
Date: 1846-01-06
Description: Report to stockholders of the Shuylkill Navigation Company for the year 1845.

Title: The Charters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road Companies; Direct Route From St. Louis Through Vincennes to Cincinnati
Date: 1853
Description: An Act to Incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, Granted By the Legislatures of the Seats of Illinois, Indiana, And Ohio, With By-Laws

Title: Memorial of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal Company, to Congress, December 1857.
Date: 1857
Description: Regarding a claim due to the company in procuring a grant of land by Congress to aid in the construction of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal.

Title: HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE WORKS THAT DEPEND ON THEM

Title: Panama Canal
Date: 1913
Description: Descriptive and statistical handbook to the Panama Canal. With illustrations and map., [compiled by the Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission].

Title: Table of Distances on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Navigable Tributaries
Date: 1851
Description: Printed at Kennedys Franklin House, Third Street Opposite the Post Office, 1851. Chart of distances broken down by river and tributary. "This Chart has been the result of much labor, time and trouble, and is confidently presented to the public as containing the most correct River Distances yet published. It has been carefully compiled from Congressional Documents, and other reliable sources. The

Title: Chipola Canal Company--Act Council, Florida.
Date: 1828
Description: Copy of act of incorporation for the Chipola Canal Company. House document (United States. Congress. House); 20th Congress, 1st session, no. 166.

Title: Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis et des travaux d'art qui en dépendent / par Michel Chevalier
Date: 1840, 1840

Title: Reports from the United States of North America on railroads, steamship travel, banks and other public undertakings
Date: 1839, 2017
Description: Translation of report and journals made by Franz and Clara Von Gerstner

Title: HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE WORKS OF ART THAT DEPEND ON THEM
Date: 1851, 2015

Title: Mississippi River Aerial View
Description: North view toward Alton of Mississippi River and Chain of Rocks Canal. Missouri to the left, Illinois to the right.

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