(PHILADELPHIA - CANALS - BROADSIDES) [Schuylkill Navigati... Schuylkill Navigation. The Board of Managers have adopted the following Rates of Toll on Miscellaneous Articles, to be charged on their Works, during the year 1858. [No place, Philadelphia?]: [s.n.], [1858]. Broadside. 14¾ x 13 inches. Printed in letterpress with handsome ornamental type border; type laid out in a clear well-presented fashion. A very good example, several expert paper mends to verso. A two column broadside divided into three sections describing tolls rates charged per tonnage, tolls on boats, and a list of articles typically found being transported and their standard weights. The last section records materials typically transported: flour, whiskey, limestone and stone for building, salted fish, fire bricks, lumber, window-glass, etc. Different products transported were charged different rates per tonnage. Iron ore, wrought or scabbled stone, rough bark, flag and curb stone were charged at a different rate than gypsum, slate, marble, broken castings, etc. Also recorded are rules for masters of boats and their responsibilities to locktenders and penalties for people illegally transporting and selling goods illegally on the Schuylkill canal. By the late 1850's, Schuylkill Navigation Company was feeling the pressure from the ambitious Philadelphia and Reading Railway. They entered into an arrangement with the Reading to facilitate the delivery of coal from the mines to the water's edge. [Not located, not on OCLC. Drago, "Canal Days in America," pp. 131-133. See p. 131 - illustrated, for a similar rates of toll broadside.] Price: USD 350.00 other currencies   order no. 141258    inquire

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