Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
I. & M. Canal.
Excavating and driving piles at Lock #37, outlet lock into the Miss. River.
A. J. Whitney – Contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Feb. 1893
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
Excavation in Lock #36 nearly done and pile-driving (with horses) begun.
John Killeur – contractor.
A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge
Taken Nov. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
View showing the piling nearly done, some of the piles sawed off to grade.
John Killeur – Contractor
A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge.
Taken February 1893
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
View of silt – for Lock #36 just after stripping of soil.
John Killeur – Contractor
A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge
Taken in Oct. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 2nd mile section
View of a section of finished work looking east from cross-bank
Grade of bottom 118.0 left-bank 134.0 right bank 131.5, banks are 8ft on top slopes 1 ½ to 1, bottom of canal 59.0 ft. Water-line 80ft. Depth of water is to be 7 feet.
A.C. Glass – sub-contractor of this section
F.S.H. – Engineer in charge.
Taken Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
View looking east from Lock #37. Canal prism partly finished.
J.H. Flick – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken in Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
View of finished work looking west from cross-bank.
Mr. Keane – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Exc. At Lock #37
Steamer A.J. Whiney in distance
Taken Nov. 1892 by J.W. Woermann
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
Excavating in canal prism at beginning of 2nd mile.
Mr. Keane – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Oct. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 5th mile
Commencement of the North River Erub.
U.S. Govt. work.
JW. Woermann – Engr. in charge
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Rock excavation at the Guard Lock (head of rapids)
U.S. Govt work
David Sears – contractor
J.W. Woermann – Engr. in charge
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
View of traps for loading wagons with wheel scrapers. Construction River Erubs.
U.S. Govt work.
October 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: Illinois & Mississippi Canal.
Commencement of work on her.
Flick’s section. Middle of 1st mile looking east.
F.S. Hunter – Engr. in charge
Taken in Oct. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 2nd mile section
Constructing the large Erub. on North side of Silver Lake.
J. S. Leyuch – contractor
F.S. H. Engr. in charge
Taken Nov. 1892
