New York State Engineer and Surveyor Records and Profile Map of the Genesee Valley Canal
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Overview of the Records
Repository
- New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
- This series consists of a map and related records exhibited at a contract letting for the completion of improvements to the Genesee Valley Canal. Records include certification of the date and time papers were exhibited; a notice directing sealed proposals to perform the work; a schedule of quantities; sample proposal form; sample general contract and section specifications; and a map of the "Profile of Genesee Valley Canal from Guard Lock to Junction with Erie Canal Exhibited for Letting at Albany."
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor records and profile map of the Genesee Valley Canal
Quantity
- 0.3 cubic feet; including 1 map
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
- A4420
Creator
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of a manuscript map and related records that were exhibited at a contract letting for the completion of improvements to the Genesee Valley Canal. Such public notice accords with established procedures for contracting work for widening, deepening, and improving canals. The work encompassed "the south end of the guard lock at the rapids to its junction with the Erie Canal at Rochester" which is within the Western Division of the canal system.
Records include: certification by the division engineer of the date and time the papers were exhibited; a printed notice by the canal commissioners to contractors directing sealed proposals to perform the work; a printed schedule of quantities (approximate); sample blank proposal form; and sample blank general contract and section specifications.
The "Profile of Genesee Valley Canal from Guard Lock to Junction with Erie Canal Exhibited for Letting at Albany: October 5th, 1869" measures 52.5 x 92.5 cm within neat lines. The manuscript map is drawn in color and includes a profile of a guard bank along the bottom neat line, and a diagram measuring offsets of a rapid's lock and guard lock at the lower right side.
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