Scizzen, i.e. Skizzen, i.e. Sketches, attributed to Philip Schopp (1828-1893). 1828-1893.

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Scizzen, i.e. Skizzen, i.e. Sketches, attributed to Philip Schopp (1828-1893). 1828-1893.

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A manuscript notebook and sketchbook attributed to Philip (Phillip) Schopp (1828-1893), a German immigrant who was a member of the 75th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment in the American Civil War serving first as a Captain and later promoted to Colonel before being discharged in 1862. The notebook contains many superb illustrations mostly from the Schuylkill Navigation System, the Union Canal, and a few from the Louisville-Portland Canal. The drawings and notations reflect a career as a draftsman and civil engineer from possibly 1851 to 1886. The 19th Century sketches are finely detailed. The structures are aqueducts, road bridges, canal locks, railroad bridges, tunnels along with precise dimensions noted of each structural member. There are also notes in German about military formations which can be attributed to Schopp's service in the Union Army 1861 to 1862.

x boxes ; 2 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7574947

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