- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Augusta Canal, 1880
- Date of Original:
- 1880
- Subject:
- Augusta Canal (Ga.)
Canals--Georgia--Augusta
Drawing--Georgia--Augusta
Persons--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This sketch of the Augusta Canal, a project championed and partially funded by Augusta attorney Henry Cumming, was made in 1880.
Image of an 1880 sketch of the Augusta Canal in Augusta, Georgia. This view depicts the waste gates of the canal. Two people are drawn standing on top of the gates. The canal project was championed and partially funded by Augusta attorney Henry Cumming. He envisioned the canal as a solution to the economic downturn of the 1840s, which affected Augusta and the South. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/henry-cumming-1799-1866/m-8735/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/henry-cumming-1799-1866
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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