Sujet

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: a floating dredge employed in deepening the canal, 1895. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: a floating dredge employed in deepening the canal, 1895. Illustration from a '...Supplement commemorative of the opening of the Baltic [or Kiel] Canal'. The 98-kilometer-long (61 mile) freshwater canal links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Elbe, to Holtenau, on the Kiel Fjord. It was constructed between 1887 and 1895. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A09_108

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Droits gérés

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28,4Mo (4,6Mo) / 31,1cm x 22,9cm / 3673 x 2701 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Germany sea technology opening German engineering industry country British geography industrial canal location century Britain newspapers press North Sea civil engineering B&W schleswig-holstein shipping Industry Construction Industry 19th century water transport dredger black & white black and white B W Baltic Sea nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN dredging ILN newspaper photograph Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News maritime canal Baltic Canal Kaiser Wilhelm Canal Kiel Canal