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This manuscript describes observations and comparisons of various waterways engineering structures in eastern United States and the Rhineland of Germany. Detailed notations are made about the structures on the Schuylkill Navigation system above Reading, PA and the Louisville – Portland Canal system.

Scope and Contents Her Sketchbook of Interior Designs contains exquisitely drawn illustrations of architectural features, interior room design, jewelry designs, lamp shade design and furniture, along with some class notes and brief histories of particular furniture design eras, ie: Louis XIV and XVI, Elizabethan, Sheraton, Chippendale, etc.. Collection contains 45 pencil drawings on stained heavy ivory paper bound in a greyish brown buckram two ring binder measuring 27.5 x 21 x 2.5 cm wrapped in a mylar...

Abstract A manuscript notebook and sketchbook attributed to Philip (Phillip) Schopp (1828-1893), a German immigrant who was a member of the 75th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment in the American Civil War serving first as a Captain and later promoted to Colonel before being discharged in 1862. The notebook contains many superb illustrations mostly from the Schuylkill Navigation System, the Union Canal, and a few from the Louisville-Portland Canal. The drawings and notations reflect a career as a...