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Displaying 346 Finding Aids
Title
- Final estimate book for several Barge Canal Middle Division contracts
Series Number
- B1354
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Salaries paid to personnel temporarily employed on the Middle Division of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B0742
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Maps, drawings, and blueprints related to state waterways and canals
Series Number
- 10448
Summary
- This series contains maps, profiles, tracings, sketches, plans, drawings, blueprints, and a small quantity of related charts and correspondence relating to the State's canals, feeders, and/or various waterways. Included are profiles of canals and rivers; cross sections of actual and proposed canal and railroad lines; and canal section sketches of the location of canals and drainage patterns.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Barge Canal contract location maps
Series Number
- B0391
Summary
- The series consists of sections of an undated printed colored U.S. Geological Survey topographic map of New York State, annotated to locate the areas covered by Barge Canal contracts. Each of the three canal divisions and the separate canals in each division were divided into residencies, with work in each residency done under the direction of a resident engineer or an assistant engineer in charge. Residency and contract numbers, and names of contractors are included.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Statewide highway planning survey county maps
Series Number
- A4034
Summary
- In March 1940 the Department of Public Works began a two-part Statewide Highway Planning Survey comprised of a Traffic Study and a Road Inventory. Public highway maps for each county were produced as part of the Road Inventory to facilitate the study of highway planning problems. This volume of printed maps was produced from data collected during this survey from 1940-1949. The volume contains maps for all counties except the five counties in New York City.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Highway Planning
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Description and map of Storm King grant to the New York Central Railroad
Series Number
- A4020
Summary
- This series contains survey descriptions and a map of a land grant for which the New York Central Railroad Company applied. The map was prepared to accompany the application for the grant of land under water of the Hudson River. The Railroad Law, Section 8, gives all corporations authority to enter land to have it surveyed in order to decide upon the best possible railroad route.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Barge Canal maintenance contracts
Series Number
- B0385
Summary
- These contracts consist of plans, memoranda of agreement, specifications, federal requirements, terms of contracts, itemized proposals, statements of material used, and estimates.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- List of grants to Revolutionary War soldiers
Series Number
- A4008
Summary
- These incomplete lists of soldiers who received land grants in return for military service during the Revolutionary War include soldier's name; file number; number of acres; and by whom delivered. There is also a list of muster masters and the amount of acreage distributed to their soldiers.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Department of Transportation Map Information Unit aerial photographs
Series Number
- B2009
Summary
- Photographs in this series were created during aerial flights that spanned multiple decades and are either 1:24000 or 1:40000 in scale. The envelopes containing the photographs include information such as quadrangle name, date, scale, "flown for," and "flown by." Envelopes also have annotated photocopies indicating the portions of quadrangles covered by the photographs. Coverage is statewide.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor ledger, cash books, journal, and trial balance books
Series Number
- B0352
Summary
- This series contains financial information relating to construction and repairs of the Barge Canal. Each volume includes individual ledger, cash book, and journal sections.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Ledgers for canal related accounts
Series Number
- B0346
Summary
- This ledgers in this series contain account information, in tabular format, related to canals in New York. The expenses are for construction and repair of canals, as well as related work such as road improvement; surveys; production of blueprints; and construction of bridges. The accounts contain the type of expense (such as reservoir improvement, bridge construction, etc.); date; and the itemized and total amount of expense.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Negatives and photographs of roads and road construction
Series Number
- A4030
Summary
- These photographs show damaged roads in eastern upstate New York; machinery used to construct or resurface roads; work in progress; roads before and after repair; various road surfaces like macadam or concrete; road signs; and automobile accidents. These were probably created by the Albany division office to plan highway projects for the division, to examine work done on the highways, and to inspect all state and county highways and report on them to the State Highway Commission when requested.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Contract plans relating to improvement of the Erie and Oswego canals
Series Number
- B0395
Summary
- Consisting mostly of maps, drawings, specifications, and related material, these plans show proposed work for which contracts were let during the "Nine Million Dollar Improvement" of the Erie and Oswego canals. In addition to particulars of a job site (elevations, structures, proposed improvements), the maps sometimes show boundaries of state-owned property, type of business (store, barber, mill, etc.), and name of businesses or property owners.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Maps of land purchased from the Holland Land Company
Series Number
- A4018
Summary
- The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of maps including purchaser's name; acreage and boundaries of each purchase and correspondence. One volume also contains an 1804 map of Holland Land Company land in New York State; another contains miscellaneous correspondence concerning land contracts.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Abstract registers of vouchers for money expended on state canals
Series Number
- B0342
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts of vouchers created by the Superintendent of Public Works for expenses incurred in maintaining the state canal system. Each abstract lists the date of expense; voucher number; names; description of expense; the canal or waterway to which expense relates; subtotals; and total amount of expense.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor index book to mechanical structures on canals
Series Number
- B0356
Summary
- This series consists of an index to and summary information about mechanical structures on various canals throughout New York State.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Canal Corporation water gauge readings
Series Number
- B0381
Summary
- This series consists of booklets that were used to record water gauge readings for bodies of water throughout New York State.
Creator
- New York State Canal Corporation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Indexes to maps and land records
Series Number
- A4024
Summary
- These indexes were created by the State Engineer's office to gain control of their maps and surveys. The indexes generally provide: name of town, tract, lot(s), or owner; volume and page number (if a land survey or purchase record); map number (if a map); and map case or portfolio letter or number (if a map).Series indexed include, "Land Papers, 2nd Series" ( A4016); Books of Sales (A4002); , Survey Field Books (A4019); and , Survey Maps ("Rolled Maps") (A4015).
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Inquiry regarding title to land in Buffalo
Series Number
- A3239
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence and one blueprint map relating to title to real property in the city of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo attorney Willima H. Warhus contacted state officials on behalf of a client seeking title to land in the vicinity of present-day Albany Street, Normal Avenue, and Hampshire Street.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title
- Journal of receipts and expenditures for construction of Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0368
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.