Canals Collection (page 8)

Bridgewater Canal
Work in progress at Worsley Basin, the terminus of the canal which James Brindley is building for the duke of Bridgewater, from Worsley to the Mersey via Manchester

3rd Duke of Bridgewater
FRANCIS EGERTON, 3rd duke of BRIDGEWATER promoter of canals, creator of the Bridgewater Canal

Social / China Junks C1840
Junks passing an inclined plane on the Imperial canal in China; citizens mill around, one man smokes a pipe on his boat, others buy and eat rice from a stall

Mars Canals
Birds eye view of part of the Martian surface, showing the canal-like network

Lesseps and Engineers
Ferdinand de Lesseps with his team of engineers during the early days of the French project, which collapses for financial and other reasons

STARCROSS BARGE
Two women, a boy and a dog on board the Starcross barge, on the River Gade, part of the Grand Union Canal, near Watford, England

Venice / Canal / La Fenice
Venice: gondoliers congregate as elegant operagoers leave La Fenice after a performance

Suez Canal Opens
The Canal is blessed, in the presence of the royal visitors

LA Noche Triste 1520
LA NOCHE TRISTE Cortes loses many men and horses in the canals of Tenochtitlan in the retreat from the Aztecs

Netherlands Canal Scene
Dutch scenery: typical canal, with fisherman

Suez Construction 1
Dredging a partially completed section of the canal, during the early stages of construction

Gloucester Ship Canal
The GLOUCESTER SHIP CANAL at Pertin. A steam tug is tugging two sailing vessels to their moorings

Blasting at Emperador
The American operation : blasting rock at the Emperador cutting

The Culebra Cutting
The American operation : this scene at the Culebra cutting gives some idea of the vast quantity of rock and soil which has to be removed

French Workers Refusal
French workers, hearing of the dreadful working conditions on the Canal, refuse to leave the ship that has brought them to Panama : the Colon police force them to disembark

French Work at Panama
French operations - giving some idea of the enormous task challenging the engineers : later this year the French will abandon the project

Panama Feasibility Stud
The Anglo-French station during the early feasibility studies for the Canal, more than half a century before it is completed !

Cite De Lesseps
The Cite de Lesseps, where the canal cuts into the Chagres River

The Canal at Mindi
Part of the canal is successfully constructed such as this stretch at Mindi, but this is the year when the French are forced to abandon their operations

Railway Scheme - 2
An alternative scheme is seriously proposed : that a railway be constructed capable of carrying ships across the isthmus. But the idea never gets off the ground

Panama Canal Coaling
The coaling plant at the Atlantic Terminal, Cristobal

NORTH CAROLINA SHIP
American warship depicted entering the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal

Panama Canal - Gatun Spillway
The Gatun spillway on the Panama Canal - part of a flood control program to combat water level change brought about by torrential rain (during the rainy season)

Administration Building
The Panama Canal Administration Building, Balboa, near Panama

VERMONT IN GATUN LOCKS
The U.S.S. Vermont in Gatun Locks

Coaling Plant and Docks
The Balboa Coaling plant, and Dry Docks, near Panama

Eugenie at Suez Opening
The French Empress Eugenie attends the opening at Ismalia, riding on a camel

Venice / Palazzo Foscari
Palazzo Ca Foscari, on the Canal Grande

Canals of Mars 20C
The canals of Mars

Clyde & Forth Canal
Sailing vessels at the entrance to the CLYDE AND FORTH CANAL at Bowling

Panama Canal Plan 1881
A birds eye view of the canal as planned by the French, whose project will have to be abandoned, and completed by the Americans

Kiel Canal Opened
After eight years work, the Nord-Ostsee Kanal (also known as the Kiel Kanal, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal) links the North and Baltic seas, near Kiel

Horses Tow Barge
Two horses draw a barge along a German canal : a sail has been raised to get a little help from the wind

Niederfinow Lift - 2
The barge lift at Niederfinow - the worlds largest of its kind

Lille / Canal / Gardens
Unloading a barge on the canal at Lille, in northern France, beside the Jardin Botanique

Canal De Loing - 3
The seven stepped locks of the Canal de Loing at Rogny-les-sept-ecluses, near Montargis, now replaced by a more sophisticated arrangement to raise barges

Amsterdam Water Scene
A scene in Amsterdam: boats on the citys waterways

Canal Folk Take Tea / 1876
Canal Life: Tea-time on a Monkey Boat

Erie Canal, USA
A night scene on the Erie Canal - barges being towed by horses

Horse-Drawn Barge
A horse pulls a barge full of coal along the canal towpath

Canal / Panama / Uss Rh Isld
USS Rhode Island in Gatun Lake

Canal / Panama / Piers 7 & 8
Piers 7 and 8 at Christobal

Culebra Cut Works
One of the massive steam shovels at Culebra : a machine like this is capable of shifting 8000 tons a day

Culebra Cut
At work on the Culebra Cut : half hidden is one of the steam shovels digging out the bottom of the canal : the bridge is a temporary erection during construction

Erie Canal, Newark
ERIE CANAL A boat leaves the lock at Newark, New York

Barge on River Gade
An old man steers his barge under a bridge on the River Gade, near Watford, England, part of the Grand Union Canal

Sodertelge Canal Sweden
A bridge enables railway trains to pass over the Sodertelge Canal, Sweden

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