[Erie Canal lock. Plan, elevation, and sections] – Vintage Print
![[Erie Canal lock. Plan, elevation, and sections], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/ac1a045be45a-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [Erie Canal lock. Plan, elevation, and sections]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Erie Canal lock. Plan, elevation, and sections]
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A careful plan, elevation, and set of cross sections, rendered in ink and watercolor, shows how one lock on the Erie Canal was meant to work. The drawing was made at West Point, where the U.S. Military Academy trained many of the engineers who surveyed and built America's canals and roads in the early 1800s. The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, linked the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, and its locks raised and lowered boats across the state's varied terrain. Drawings like this one show how engineers translated that large public work into exact, buildable detail.
| Created / published | and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. |
| Genre | Drawn at West Point. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,173 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218432 |
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