Water Flowing Through Butterfly Dam, Drainage Canal, Lockport (Ill.) (3)
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- c. 1908
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B&W postcard; Front: Copr. H. H. Carter; Back: Butterfly Dam at Lockport, the end of the Chicago Drainage Canal, 28 miles from Chicago. The drainage canal is the greatest engineering work in America today. The length of the completed main channel is 28 miles. The right of way approximates 6,500 acres and cost nearly $2,500,000.00. The entire cost of the canal was over $30,000,000.00. By use of the drainage canal the current of the Chicago River i...
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Carter, H. H
- Contributing Institution
- Lewis University
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- Carter, H. H. Water Flowing Through Butterfly Dam, Drainage Canal, Lockport (Ill.) (3). c. 1908. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lew_carter/id/141. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Carter, H. H, (c. 1908) Water Flowing Through Butterfly Dam, Drainage Canal, Lockport (Ill.) (3). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lew_carter/id/141
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- Carter, H. H. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lew_carter/id/141>.