The great Biwa Canal and inclined railroad for hoisting the boats, Japan – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The great Biwa Canal and inclined railroad for hoisting the boats, Japan, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The great Biwa Canal and inclined railroad for hoisting the boats, Japan
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Few stereographs show the Biwa Canal's inclined railway, which lifted cargo boats between the canal's two water levels on the slope above Kyoto. Built in the 1890s during Japan's Meiji-era push to modernize transportation, the canal linked Lake Biwa to the city, and the incline let vessels cross the steep change in elevation without a conventional lock system. The card's caption, copyrighted by C.H. Graves and issued by the Universal Photo Art Co., dates the view to about 1902, though the record notes these details are unverified. Stereo views like this one were popular with American audiences, who often saw such engineering works as emblems of a rapidly industrializing Japan.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves; Universal Photo Art Co. No. 169. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Inclined railroads; Canals...--Japan; Japan--B- C-; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 873 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134814 |
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