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Late to the party, but we’ve got some great images to contribute to August’s Boats in the Library social media challenge.
From the Thomas Hahn Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Collection.
Thomas Hahn (1926- 2007) was a professional industrial archaeologist, a college professor and a bona fide Indian medicine man. He was born in November 1926, in Topeka, Kansas. After retiring from the Navy following a 28 year career, Hahn earned several degrees including a Masters degree in History and a PhD in Industrial Archeology. He spoke five language and was closely connected with his indigenous heritage and at one point in his life served as Chief of the Kansas Delawares Nation.
Hahn had a 28-year career in the Navy that spanned three wars, beginning in 1944 as a seaman second class and ended in retirement in 1972 with a captain’s rank. He wrote 30 volumes on the C&O Canal for the National Park Service, as well as historical books, essays and brochures. He was considered one of the world’s foremost expert on the C&O Canal. He was the field archaeologist on two major canal restoration projects; one in Havre de Grace, Md., the other in Alexandria, Va. Hahn founded national and international canal societies as a way of sharing information. He was president and founder of the 25-member Eastern West Virginia Archeology Society and served as president of the American Canal Association from 1972-97.
See the complete set of photos on our Flickr site.
Image 1: C&O Canal at Williamsport, Maryland, with Cushwa’s Coal and Brick Warehouse
Image 2: C&O Canal scene below Lock 38, Shepherdstown, WV, with the Norfolk & Western Railroad Bridge
Image 3: Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, Cumberland Wharf, with canal boats
Image 4: Duvall Foundry at Lock 3, used as a veterinary hospital
Image 5: C&O Canal above Georgetown
Image 6: Rock Creek and C&O Canal in ice
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Please take a paws to thank and appreciate all our Interior law enforcement personnel (even the furry ones) who help protect our public lands and wildlife.
We are grateful for your service and your dedicated professionalism. Thank you. #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay
Photo of K-9 high fives at Pinnacles National Park, by NPS. Photo description: A German shepherd dog and a park ranger in a uniform give each other a high five.
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On this date, February 26, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park as the 15th park in the U.S. national parks system.
As a 102nd birthday present, we’re offering this 1917 photograph of a mule ride on the Bright Angel Trail, a six mile trail still traveled by mules and humans alike. The riders in this photograph included the party of P.S. du Pont and Alice Belin du Pont, who traveled to the Grand Canyon that year in the company of Nathaniel Gould Robertson, May B. Robertson, Charles A. Belin, John P. Nields, Mary Blanchard (Craven) Nields, Louisa d'Andelot (du Pont) Copeland, and Charles Copeland.
This photograph is part of Hagley Library’s P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002). To view more photographs from this collection in our Digital Archive, click here.
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