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The amateur boatwomen: canal boating 1941-1945.
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- Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1973.
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 74-84 Offsite Canal boats and boaters [by] D. J. Smith.
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- London, H. Evelyn [1973]
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 75-875 Offsite A source book of canals, locks and canal boats / written and compiled by Hugh McKnight.
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- London : Ward Lock, 1974.
- 1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSB 75-41 Offsite Knobsticks : canal carrying on the northern Trent and Mersey / Robert J. Wilson.
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- Kettering : Robert Wilson, 1974.
- 1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 76-388 Offsite Narrow boat painting : a history and description of the English narrow boats' traditional paintwork / [by] A. J. Lewery.
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- Newton Abbot ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David and Charles, 1974.
- 1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 76-516 Offsite A pictorial history of canal craft / [by] Peter L. Smith.
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- London : Batsford, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 81-588 Offsite Champlain to Chesapeake : a canal era pictorial cruise / by William J. McKelvey, Jr.
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- Exton, Pa. : Canal Press, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLF 81-1226 Offsite Steam on canals / C.P. Weaver & C.R. Weaver.
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- Newton Abbott, Devon ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 88-1294 Offsite Ramlin Rose : the boatwoman's story / Sheila Stewart ; illustrated by David Miller.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-14456 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Hold on a minute.
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- London, Allen & Unwin [1965]
- 1965
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-16 4199 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proceedings of two meetings of citizens of Philadelphia respecting Col. Clark's plan for ascending rapids in rivers and thereby improving the navigation of the river Delaware, beyond Trenton. To which is prefixed a brief description of the plan, with a plate.
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- Philadelphia, Printed by J.R.A. Skerrett, 1824.
- 1824
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Philadelphia. Citizens. Proceedings of two meetings of citizens of Philadelphia) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *C p.v. 252 9 titles Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Inland navigation for 1850; or, Canal property rescued by the aquatic locomotive; combined with a new system of screw propulsion: illustrated by ... conversations with celebrated railway and canal engineers ... To which will be added, a chapter on ocean steaming ... By a promoter of inland steam navigation.
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- London, Printed for the author by Bradshaw and Blacklock, and published at 5, Chapel Walks, Manchester, 1848.
- 1848
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (Gray, T. Inland navigation) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Electric towage of canal boats, report and estimates for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, by L.B. Stillwell and H.S. Putnam.
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- [New York] 1908.
- 1908
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TS (Stillwell, L. B. Electric towage of canal boats) Offsite Der elektrische Schiffszug : eine technische und wirtschaftliche Untersuchung über die Möglichkeit bzw. Zweckmässigkeit einer Erhöhung der Fahrgeschwindigkeit auf verkehrsreichen Kanälen / Max Schinkel.
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- Jena : G. Fischer, 1906.
- 1906
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TS (Schinkel, M. Elektrische Schiffszug) Offsite Le halage électrique sur le canal du Rhône au Rhin entre Strasbourg et Mulhouse et sur les embranchements de ce canal; une réalisation du port autonome de Strasbourg. Préf. de R. Graff.
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- [Strasbourg] Impr. des Dernières nouvelles de Strasbourg, 1954.
- 1954
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB (Trinquet, A. Halage électrique sur le canal du Rhône au Rhin entre Strasbourg et Mulhouse) Offsite Traction mécanique des bateaux sur les canaux contournant le lac Ladoga. (Avant-projet). Comptes rendus de la commission chargée d'études.
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- St.-Petersbourg, Impr. du Min. des voies de communication, 1905.
- 1905
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QH (Russia. Komissiya po rassmotreniyu voprosa o mekhanicheskǒi tyage sudov na kanalakh. Traction mécanique des bateaux sur les canaux contournant le lac Ladoga) Offsite Report of the trial trips made by the steam canal boat, "William Newman", of Buffalo, through the Erie Canal : during the seasons of 1872 and 1873 : under the rules and regulations adopted by the Commission appointed under the Act, Chapter 868, Laws of 1871, "To Foster and Develop the Internal Commerce of the State" / by D.P. Dobbins.
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- Buffalo, Matthews & Warren, Printers, 1873.
- 1873
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TB p.v. 671 no. 1-10 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
History of steam on the Erie Canal. Failures of steam. Canal necessities. By H. Boynton ...
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- New York, Evening Post Steam Presses, 1873.
- 1873
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TB p.v. 618 no. 1-8 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Inland navigation : a study from an economical and technical point of view of the working and mechanical traction of barges on rivers and canals : and of the by-laws referring thereto / by C. Lavaud.
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- Brussels : Executive Committee, Office of the Secretary General, [1920]
- 1920
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 111 no. 1-9 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Die Treidel-Schwebebahn; das Schleppmittel der Zukunft auf Binnenwasserstrassen, von Arthur H. Müller ...
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- Hamburg, Boysen & Maasch, 1927.
- 1927
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 183 no. 1-17 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
William Baxter's claim to the reward of $100,000, offered by the state of New York for the successful introduction of steam upon the Erie Canal.
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- [Newark, N.J.? 1874?]
- 1874
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 203 no. 1-14 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Steam on the canals. Report of the commission appointed by chapter 868, laws of 1871. Transmitted to the Legislature February 14, 1872.
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- Albany, The Argus Co., 1872.
- 1872
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 133 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
State canals. Prospectus of the New York Steam Cable Towing Company. 1872.
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- Albany, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1872.
- 1872
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 137 no. 1-8 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB p.v. 50 no. 1-20 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Modes de traction mécanique le long des canaux. Rapport par La Rivière ... et Bourguin ...
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- Bruxelles, J. Goemaere, 1898.
- 1898
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TLC p.v. 90 no. 1-11 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Steam towage on the canals, by means of a submerged wire cable; report, by a committee ... Dec. 7, 1871.
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- New York, 1871.
- 1871
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TS p.v. 2 no. 1-14 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The canal railway. Argument ... before the Senate Canal Committee.
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- [n.p.] 1882?
- 1882
Steam train boats, for canal transportation. A new system of towing on canals and indland waters, with a plan of connecting and steering section-boats. [ By W. Frick]
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- Philadelphia, Lineawaver & Wallace, 1876.
- 1876
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB p.v. 32 no. 1-26 (no. 11 lacking) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Low tolls and steam on the Erie canal. The Belgian system of steam cable towage, as adopted by the New York steam cable towing co.
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- New York, Edgar Hoyt, printer, 1877.
- 1877
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB p.v. 32 no. 1-26 (no. 11 lacking) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
"The Erie canal: thruway of yesterday." An exhibition featuring the 130th anniversary of the opening of Rochester's first aqueduct over the Genesee River. Oct. - Nov. - Dec. 1953 [microform]
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- Rochester, N.Y., 1953.
- 1953
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZM MAR p.v. 1329-1336 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Not available - Please for assistance.Evidence and arguments given before the Assembly Committee on Canals, March 19., 20., 25., 1897, favoring the introduction, without expense to the state, of an improved system of towage upon the canals, by a railway to be constructed subsidiary thereto [microform]
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- [n.p., 1879?]
- 1879
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZV TPG p.v. 5-8 Offsite Report of H. Boynton to Erie Canal Steam Towing Company. January, 1873 [microform]
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- New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1873.
- 1873
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZT-TN p.v. 91-95 Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315 Not available - Please for assistance.Canal boats along the Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in archaeological variability / by Floyd Mansberger and Christopher Stratton.
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- Springfield, Ill. : Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, c2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVF (Illinois and Michigan Canal) 02-1364 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Steam on the canals / ... annual report of the Commission appointed by Chapter 868, laws of 1871.
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- Albany, N.Y. : Weed, Parsons and Co., printers
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Angelina, star of the show / story by Katharine Holabird ; illustrations by Helen Craig.
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- London : Puffin, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433069534307Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 06-716 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Observations on the various systems of canal navigation, [electronic resource] : with inferences practical and mathematical; in Which Mr. Fulton's Plan of Wheel - Boats, and the Utility of Subterraneous and of Small Canals are Particularly Investigated, Including an Account of the Canals and Inclined Planes of China. with four plates. By William Chapman, Member of the Society of Civil Engineers in London, and M. R. I. A.
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- London : published by I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1797.
- 1797
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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0317500200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplBuilding the St. Helena II [electronic resource] : rebirth of a nineteenth-century canal boat / Carroll M. Gantz.
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- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, c2012.
- 2012
- 2 Resources
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Reedbound : a year on Ireland's inland waterways / Giles Byford ; illustrated by Jill Parkinson.
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- Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire : Matador, [2015]
- 2015
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 17-709 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Description of Palmer's system of steam canal navigation.
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- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1877?]
- 1877
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB p.v. 51, no. 17 no. 1-19 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Belgian system of cable towing : as relating to the use of steam on the canals and the question of cheap transportation.
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- New York : Weed, Parsons and Co., 1875.
- 1875
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The Baxter Steam Canal Boat Transportation Company.
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- New York : E.B. Tripp, printer and stationer, 1873.
- 1873
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB p.v. 81 no. 1-14 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Varen waar geen water is : reconstructie van een verdwenen wereld : geschiedenis van de scheepvaart ten oosten van IJssel van 1300 tot 1930 / G.J. Schutten.
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- Hengelo [Netherlands] : Broekhuis, [1981], ©1981.
- 1981-1981
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HE689 .S34 Off-site Exploring England by canal / David Owen.
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- Newton Abbot ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles, c1986.
- 1986
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DA632 .O88x Off-site Ramlin Rose : the boatwoman's story / Sheila Stewart ; illustrations by David Miller.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 1993
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DA670.O87 S74 1993 Off-site Canal-boat children, by Ethel M. Springer.
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- Washington, Govt. print. off., 1923.
- 1923-1923
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text US 957.1 SPR Off-site Maiden's trip / by Emma Smith.
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- London : Putnam, 1948.
- 1948
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 23773.38.7100 Off-site Rudder Grange / by Frank R. Stockton.
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- New York : Scribner, 1908, c1879.
- 1908-1879
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KD 20198 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KD 20197 Off-site The amateur boatwomen : canal boating 1941-1945 / by Eily Gayford.
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- Cleobury Mortimer ; M & M Baldwin, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Off-site Narrow boats / Tom Chaplin.
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- London : Whittet, 1989.
- 1989
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VM396 Off-site
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