Reports, specifications, and estimates of public works in the United States of America comprising the Philadelphia gas works ; reservoir dam across the Swatara ; twin locks on the Schuylkill Canal ; Delaware Breakwater ; Philadelphia Water Works ; dam and lock on the Sandy and Beaver Canal ; dam on the James River and Kanawha Canal, Virginia ; locks of eight feet lift, on the same ; aqueducts across Rivanna River and Byrd Creek, on the same ; superstructure, etc., of farm bridges, on the same ; lock gates and mitre sills ed. by William Strickland, Edward H. Gill, Henry R. Campbell ; explanatory of the atlas folio of detailed engraving elucidating the engineering works herein described

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Notes: Atlas entitled: Public works of the United States of America; "The plates are engraved in the best style of art by the Le Keuxs, from drawings made expressly for this work"; SCDIRB copy (39088016467334) imperfect: atlas of plates only.; SCDIRB copy inscribed on original front cover: John R.M. Daniel esq. compliments E.H. Gill.; SCDIRB copy stamped on title page: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Feb 28 1940 [manuscript accession number] 312750.; SCDIRB copy bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine; original printed paper wrappers.

author: Strickland, William 1787-1854
Author: Campbell, Henry R
former owner: Daniel, John R. M. DSI
Author: Gill, Edward H
engraver: Le Keux, John Henry 1812-1896; Le Keux, John 1783-1846
Author: Strickland, William 1787-1854 Public works of the United States of America; United States Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Physical description: [4], 168 pages 23 cm + 1 atlas ([4], 40 leaves of plates (some doubled) : illustrations (engravings), map ; 55 cm)