Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal
Exc. At Lock #37
View of pit just after dredge went out and coffer-dam was put in. Pump-house at end of pit. Steamer A.J. Whitney in Rock River to right.
Taken Oct. 1892 by J.W.W.
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
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 – 4th mile
Constructing crib to protect the Erub. from floods from Mill Creek. Rock River at left of picture.
November 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: I. & M. Canal
Construction of abutments for dams.
Filling the forms of the abut. on south side Carr’s Island
September 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
U.S. Govt camps on Carr’s Island. Quarters for men during construction of abutments and embankments.
September 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
