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Forty Four Annual Report Of The Board Of Managers Of The Monongahela Navigation Company To The Stockholders: With Accompanying Documents Presented Jan

Forty Four Annual Report Of The Board Of Managers Of The Monongahela Navigation Company To The Stockholders: With Accompanying Documents Presented Jan

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ManagementGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354487092
ISBN13: 9789354487095
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Industrial America comes into focus through ledgers, statistics and formal corporate prose. These pages breathe with history. The forty-fourth annual report of the Board of Managers of the Monongahela Navigation Company, presented in January 1882, is a historical company financial report capturing a key moment in 1880s Pennsylvania river commerce and Gilded Age Pittsburgh industry. Issued during the United States' inland waterway boom, this nineteenth century business document traces how a leading river navigation company managed and expanded locks and dams along the Monongahela, shaping the flow of coal, iron and manufactured goods to market. As a corporate annual report reprint and primary source for historians, this volume opens the files of a major player in Monongahela River navigation history. Its accompanying documents embody inland waterway transportation records and locks and dams engineering data at a level invaluable for business history research, illuminating American canal companies history, regional investment and the practical mechanics of keeping a river open year-round. Researchers of Gilded Age finance, students of 1880s Pennsylvania river commerce and anyone tracing the evolution of US river navigation companies will find here an unvarnished institutional voice, preserved in its original form. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it speaks both to casual readers fascinated by industrial America and to classic-literature collectors building a library of enduring primary sources.

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