Author: Robert McCullough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal
Author: Robert McCullough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Pennsylvania Main Line Canal
Author: David L. Fritz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Picture-journey Along the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, 1826-1857
Author: Philip J. Hoffmann
Publisher: American Canal & Transportation Center
ISBN: 9780933788848
Category : Pennsylvania Canal (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: American Canal & Transportation Center
ISBN: 9780933788848
Category : Pennsylvania Canal (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals
Author: William H. Shank
Publisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Pennsylvania Main Line Canal
Author: McCullough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933788268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933788268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Canals of Pennsylvania and the System of Internal Improvements
Author: Theodore B. Klein
Publisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Canal in the Mountains
Author: Scott D. Heberling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892711499
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Presents the history of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal in the Lewistown Narrows region of Mifflin and Juniata Counties, describes measures taken to document the remains of the canal during a survey of its archaeological and historic features undertaken prior to the reconstruction of US 22/322, and illustrates the process of constructing the Lewistown Narrows Canal Park.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892711499
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Presents the history of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal in the Lewistown Narrows region of Mifflin and Juniata Counties, describes measures taken to document the remains of the canal during a survey of its archaeological and historic features undertaken prior to the reconstruction of US 22/322, and illustrates the process of constructing the Lewistown Narrows Canal Park.
Report of the Canal Commissioners ...
Author: Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Pennsylvania Main Line Canal
Author: David L. Fritz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. Churella
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.