Reading Area Community College: Schuylkill Navigation Collection, Disk 1, 1994-2001

Item — Shelf: Top of Shelf 13, Box: K.S.

Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

2001 grant-funded digitization of the 1994 Schuylkill Navigation Company's collection found at Kernsville Dam.

CD contains 184 files. Majority of files are images of maps organized by "Reach." Reach 1 - Delaware River to Fairmount Dam. Reach 2 - Manayunk to Flat Rock Dam.

Dates

1994-2001

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 1.0 Linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Separated Materials note

Only one disc containing images related to Reaches 1 and 2 was gifted to the collection. The Reading Area Community College has created a website dedicated to the digitization project of all 12 reaches. As of the date of this fiding aid, the website can be accessed at the following URL: https://www.racc.edu/sites/default/files/imported/Yocum/canal/Reaches/reach.html.

Physical Description

CD-R containing images and maps related to Reach 1 (Delaware River to Fairmount Pool) and Reach 2 (Manayunk to Flat Rock Dam) of the Schuylkill Navigation collection, a digitzation project funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant gifted to the Reading Area Community College's Yocum Library by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2000.