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Canals, Interoceanic

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• Canals

• Panama Canal (Panama)

• Interoceanic canals
• Isthmian canals
• Sea level canals

• Interoceanic Canals: An Essay on the Question of Location for a Ship Canal Across the American Continent (New York: D. Van Nostrand; et al., 1870), by Henri Stucklé (page images at MOA)

• The ABC of the Panama Canal Controversy (originally printed in the Baltimore Sun; New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1913), by Henry Herzberg (page images here at Penn)
• The Americans in Panama, by William R. Scott (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at czbrats.com)
• The Great Adventure of Panama (Doubleday, Page, 1920), by Philippe Bunau-Varilla (illustrated HTML at BYU)
• The Panama Canal and its Makers (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1909), by Vaughan Cornish (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rapport Betreffende de Gevolgen der Opening van het Panama-Kanaal voor Nederland en Koloniën (main report in Dutch, with appendices in Dutch, English and other languages; 1912), by J. T. Cremer and H. C. Obreen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zone Policeman 88: A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers, by Harry A. Franck (Gutenberg text)
• The Makers of the Panama Canal, 1911, ed. by F. E. Jackson and Son, illust. by Thomas Marine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jungle Island (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1925), by W. C. Allee and Marjorie Hill Allee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yellow Eyes (included on the Claws That Catch Baen CD image; c2007), by John Ringo and Tom Kratman
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB

• The Moving Picture Boys at Panama: or, Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal (1915), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Panama Canal Review (partial serial archives)

• Methods of Measurement of Vessels Using the Panama Canal (hearings before a Senate Committee on Commerce subcommittee, 3 parts, with slightly different titles, bound together; Washington: GPO, 1930), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Methods of Measurement of Vessels Using the Panama Canal (hearings before a Senate Committee on Commerce subcommittee, 3 parts, with slightly different titles, bound together; Washington: GPO, 1930), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Mémoires sur les Principaux Travaux d'Utilité Publique Exécutés en Égypte depuis la Plus Haute Antiquité Jusqu'a Nos Jours (in French; Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1872-1873), by L.-M.-A. Linant de Bellefonds
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856 (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Ferdinand de Lesseps, trans. by N. D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Holidays on Inland Waterways: 2000 Miles Cruising by Motor Boat and Pleasure Skiff on the Canals and Rivers of Great Britain (first published 1916), by Peter Bonthron (illustrated HTML with commentary at jim-shead.com)

• James Brindley and the Early Engineers (original edition London: J. Murray, 1864; with added notes and illustrations), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (HTML in the UK)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• To Build a Canal: Sault Ste. Marie, 1853-1854 and After (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1981), by John N. Dickinson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Morris Canal and Banking Company: Final Report of Consulting and Directing Engineer, June 29, 1929 (Trenton: Morris Canal and Banking Company, 1929), by Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Pocket Guide for the Tourist and Traveller, Along the Line of the Canals, and the Interior Commerce of the State of New-York (New York: T. and J. Swords, 1824), by Horatio Gates Spafford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mighty Chain: A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives, by New York State Archives and Records Administration
  • HTML at nysed.gov
  • text at nysed.gov

• Banner by the Wayside (New York: Random House, c1947), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels: Erie Canal (c1852), by Jacob Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The United States and the Nicaragua Canal (Foreign Policy Association Information Service v4 #6; 1928), by Foreign Policy Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)