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Displaying 346 Finding Aids
Title
- Minutes of the Canal Commissioners and Superintendent of Public Works
Series Number
- B0201
Summary
- This series contains minutes of meetings, maps, diagrams, drawings, tracings, decisions, petitions, correspondence, resolutions, contract lists, testimonies, depositions, affidavits, and newspaper clippings. Minutes are missing from this series from early December 1883 through late May 1887 and from early January 1889 late October 1896.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Engineer and Surveyor records of sales of state lands belonging to various state funds
Series Number
- A4004
Summary
- The series consists of volumes recording sales of state lands belonging to the state's general funds, school fund, canal fund, and literature fund. Volumes may provide date of sale; name of tract or township; lot number; acreage; minimum price per acre and per lot; price; amount of bond executed by purchasers for the sale; date of delivery; amount of first payment; page recorded in "General Sales Book" [series A4002]; and date of reversion.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Holland Land Company field notebooks
Series Number
- A4012
Summary
- The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land in the 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of Holland Land Company survey notes and includes survey data, survey diagrams, and sometimes name of village surveyed.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Maps produced for the Commissioners to Report a Plan for Improving the Navigation of the Hudson River
Series Number
- A4006
Summary
- This series contains a map drawn by engineer John Randel, Jr. showing the Hudson River from Troy south to New Baltimore. The map includes river depth; adjacent cities; some street names and buildings; nearby waterways; and route of a proposed canal alongside part of the river. Also included is a certification by Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt, that the maps were made according to an 1819 law and that the maps accompanied a report made to the state legislature.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Engineer's estimates of cost for canal contracts
Series Number
- B0374
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor index to maps and plans
Series Number
- B0360
Summary
- This series consists of indexes to maps and plans created by the New York State Engineer and Surveyor. The indexes contain the book number; title of the map or plan; and date.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Registers of contract proposals regarding the enlargement of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B0348
Summary
- This series contains registers of contract proposals received by the Canal Board for the Erie Canal enlargement, Western and Middle Divisions. With the exception of a single volume, entries provide the following information: number of proposal, names of proposers, names of guaranty, P.O. address (only sometimes), amount, estimate amount (only sometimes), and remarks (only sometimes).
Creator
- New York (State). Canal Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Barge Canal construction photographs
Series Number
- 11833
Summary
- These photographs appear to have been submitted to the State Engineer and Surveyor by the Board of Consulting Engineers, a board of five civil engineers appointed to follow the progress of work on the canal system and to report on it to the State Engineer and Surveyor. Photographs show: canals; locks; dams; bridges; piers; nearby buildings; damages needing repair; dredging, excavation, repairs, and construction work in progress; culverts; and canal-specific fixtures (i.e., lights).
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Blueprint copies of maps of lands permanently appropriated by the State of New York for the use of the Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0214
Summary
- This series documents the responsibilities of the Superintendent of Public Works relating to the appropriation of land for canal use. It includes appropriation maps; descriptions of appropriated lands; certificates of filing; and notices and affidavits served on property owners. Maps provide a detailed view of the property to be appropriated; and a detailed narrative description of lands to be appropriated, including the names of property owners and often those of adjoining property owners.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Index to contractors whose proposals were accepted for projects on the Eastern Division of the Erie Canal Enlargement
Series Number
- B0376
Summary
- This slender volume lists names of contractors in rough alphabetical order by first letter of last name. Included with each name is the proposal number (referred to as "proposition"), the nature of the work to be completed (sections, culverts, aqueducts, bridge superstructures, locks, waste weirs, etc.), and a numeric reference to a related, but unidentified volume(s).
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Federal-aid secondary highway system county maps
Series Number
- 14154
Summary
- The series consists of maps of all the counties in New York, outside of New York City, annotated to show proposed and approved federal-aid secondary highways as of 1945. There are two maps present for each county: one indicates state and county highways that were not considered part of the federal-aid highway system; the other shows the state and county highways that were designated as part of the system.
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor summary of engineering expenditures for constructing Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0362
Summary
- This series consists of a volume of monthly engineering expenditures for the improvement of sections of the Champlain, Erie, and Oswego Canals. The forms in this volume detail amounts of expenditures by various offices under the supervision of the State Engineer and Surveyor and the purpose of each payment.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Copies of hydrographs and flow data of the Canaseraga and Keshequa Creeks and the Genesee River
Series Number
- B0389
Summary
- This series consists of hydrographs of the Canaseraga and Keshequa Creeks and of the Genesee River showing gage heights and discharge at various points and stations along those waterways and showing water surface elevation in connection with the Canaseraga Creek improvement. Hydrographic work was undertaken to measure the volumes of streams and flow of water for the purpose of determining water supply available for canals, domestic purposes, and for potential water power.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Description of lots granted to New Yorkers in compensation for land lost to Vermont
Series Number
- A4010
Summary
- These lots were in a tract set aside by New York State for grants to persons who lost land as a result of the New York-Vermont boundary dispute. The descriptions of lots provide lot number, boundaries, and number of acres in each lot.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
Series Number
- B2600
Summary
- This series consists of scrapbooks of original newsprint and photocopies of articles pertaining to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and nuclear evacuation plans of New York State municipalities.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Disaster Preparedness
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State highway planning and maintenance map books
Series Number
- A3227
Summary
- The series consists of annotated U.S. Geological Survey maps bound into two volumes. The printed topographic sheets are annotated with black and red lines representing some aspect of highway planning or maintenance. The arrangement is apparently by geographic quadrangle, with successive maps depicting adjacent areas ranging from west to east across the state. Volume 1 shows counties in western and central New York; volume 2 shows counties in eastern and southern New York.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Office secretary's diary
Series Number
- B1732
Summary
- This series consists of a diary kept by an unidentified secretary in the Department of Public Works. Besides noting office attendance and departmental appointments, this volume includes clippings and other memoranda relating to the Canal Board, barges, and tugboats.
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Department of Public Works right of way map tracings
Series Number
- 18552
Summary
- The records on this microfilm document land acquisitions required for all Department of Public Works construction projects as well as acquisitions completed on behalf of other state and municipal agencies. Types of acquisition projects may include those which are related to the Public Service Commission, state highways, or interstate ventures. Duplicate copies of the original records are filed with the Department of State, county clerk's offices, and Department of Transportation regional offices.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Public Works. Real Estate Division. Director's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor monthly summaries of payment for improvement of the Erie, Champlain, and Oswego Canals
Series Number
- B0363
Summary
- This series consists of a volume of monthly summaries of payment for the improvement of sections of the Champlain, Erie, and Oswego Canals. The forms in this volume detail expenditures by various offices and the pupose of each payment.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Final estimates and accounts
Series Number
- B0377
Summary
- This series contains final estimates, accounts, and measurements for a variety of canal and canal related structures including locks, roads, shores, bridges, sluices, excavations, culverts, linings, puddlings, dams, and embankments. Volumes contain detailed, multi-colored drawings and sketches, monochrome photographs, blueprints, and linen maps. Records pertain to the Middle Division of the Enlarged Erie Canal, Black River Canal, Chenango Canal, Chenango Canal Extension, and Oneida Lake Canal.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.