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Displaying 346 Finding Aids
Title
- State highway records
Series Number
- A0577
Summary
- This series contains invoices for funds expended by the state for supplies and labor used for the construction or maintenance of state highways. Each form contains the town and county, law under which funds were appropriated, date, name of supplier, a listing of the goods or services purchased, funds expended, the road that was serviced, and a contract number. Most invoices display a stamp stating that the expenditure was audited by the Commissioner of Transportation.
Creator
- New York (State). State Commission of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Architect's Approvals of Special Fund estimates
Series Number
- B0339
Summary
- This single volume contains letterpress copies of approvals of special fund estimates submitted to the state architect for review as required by Section 65 of the State Insanity Law. All of the special fund estimates in the volume pertain to the construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of state hospital buildings and grounds.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Architecture
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State land overlay maps
Series Number
- B2274
Summary
- This series consists of overlay maps corresponding to United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangle maps showing locations of state lands in the Adirondack region (mostly eastern Adirondacks). The maps also depict survey patents. Maps are 1:24,000 scale and contain extensive pencil and color-coded notations and additions. Some camera negatives are included.
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
- Record of contracts awarded for improvement of public highways
Series Number
- B0272
Summary
- This series tracks the award of contracts to private entities or county boards of supervisors for road construction. Information includes name, number, and (sometimes) section of road; brief description of work to be done; county; division (Eastern, Middle, Western); preliminary cost estimate; by whom plans approved (usually county supervisors) and date; date proposals received; to whom contract awarded; date of contract; amount of contract; monthly cost estimates; and final cost estimate.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Annual reports of bridge companies
Series Number
- B0267
Summary
- This series consists of bridge company annual reports including company name; filing date; dates articles of association filed; description of bridge, including: river it spans, town and county, length, width, height, and type; toll rates; capital stock data; cost of company property (bridge, toll house, right of way); indebtedness; receipts, payments, and yearly dividends; balance on hand; name of newspaper in which annual report published; names of company officers; and address of company.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts of property first cleared and left at Boonville on the Black River Canal
Series Number
- B0249
Summary
- These volumes contain detailed statistical data on agricultural and manufactured goods that passed through the toll collector's office at Boonville on the Black River Canal. These accounts record types of materials and their weight and or measurements. Entries are recorded daily and totaled at weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of expenditures for Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor's Offices
Series Number
- B0261
Summary
- This series consists of expenditures of Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor's Offices kept for the state's internal auditing needs. Expenses include newspaper advertisements of public land sales, printing and binding for other than advertising, surveying and appraising of land; employment of clerks and amount of certificate of payment and postage.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Highway construction and maintenance payment journal
Series Number
- B0275
Summary
- This series consists of a record of payments for highway construction, maintenance, engineering, and related expenses. Information includes county; estimate number; road number; petition number; amount paid from state fund, county fund, and federal aid; and amount to be charged on account for construction, engineering, advertising, or miscellaneous expenses. The requisition number; date and who was paid are sometimes included.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Policy and program files for the 1980 Winter Olympics
Series Number
- 13089
Summary
- This series contains policy and procedure manuals regarding preparations for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Records include environmental impact statements, disaster operations manuals, operation manual and plans, newspaper clippings, and the Department of Transportation's operating manual and final report of the Olympics.
Creator
- New York (State). Olympic Transportation Committee
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State, district, county, and special highway planning maps
Series Number
- A3229
Summary
- This series consists of state and county highway maps showing completed, improved, and proposed roads. Most are official published county highway maps, annotated to show state and county highway systems corrected to 1936. Also included are publications and correspondence on special highway projects in New York City, dating from the 1940s and early 1950s, and a number of World War II maps indicating military priority highways.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Public Works. Bureau of Research and Statistics
Access Restrictions
- Use is restricted: Use only under supervision or with assistance of archivist due to fragile physical condition.
Title
- Western Division letter books
Series Number
- B0690
Summary
- This series is comprised of letter books used by the Western Division Engineer's Office to record copies of letters sent by division, resident, and assistant engineers. The letter books cover a wide variety of topics ranging from repairs and improvements of the Western Division of the Erie Canal, contracts with workers, repairs of lift bridges, estimates, and progress reports.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Canal ice permits
Series Number
- B0337
Summary
- This series consists of canal ice permits, which allowed people to extract ice from canals during the seasonal navigational suspension period. Mostly permits are from the Capital District, particularly Watervliet, Green Island and Cohoes. Many were individual men, though a few women and several industries applied for and received ice permits as well. Information includes the name and city of the individual submitting the application and the conditions under which the permit was granted.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Stenographer's minutes of Jackson and Perkins against the State of New York in the Court of Claims
Series Number
- B0387
Summary
- This series consists of four volumes of stenographer's minutes documenting the case of Jackson and Perkins v. the State of New York, which was tried before the Court of Claims in Rochester and Syracuse during the months of October and November 1917. The case evolved from property damage claims that the company filed against the state, alleging that repeated flooding of the Clyde River was directly linked to construction of the Barge Canal. Final disposition of the case is not documented in the records.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Copy of annual report on the canals
Series Number
- A4022
Summary
- This volume is actually a compilation of several reports written by the State Engineer and Surveyor and by division engineers which made up the part of the State Engineer and Surveyor's 1851 annual report on canals. The narratives concern construction completed, costs, estimated costs of needed work, and use of the canals.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Journal and voucher register for Barge Canal contracts
Series Number
- B0378
Summary
- This series is comprised of a volume of vouchers for Barge Canal contracts. The vouchers contain date of the contract; amount of expense; purpose of expense (such as payment to contractors, advertising, recovering appropriations, etc.); subtotals; and totals.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Abstracts of expenditures for construction of Barge Canal and terminals
Series Number
- B0350
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts of expenditures for the construction and repair of the Barge Canal and terminals. The information in these ledgers is in tabular format and includes, but is not limited to the voucher number; date; recipient of payment; amount of voucher; engineering expenses; payments to various types of laborers; and office expenses. Also included is the name of the division engineer who authorized the expenses; division in which work was performed; 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
- Ledgers pertaining to engineering appropriations
Series Number
- B0344
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts of vouchers created by the Superintendent of Public Works for engineering work on the Barge 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 totals.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Western Division Engineer's Office report and letter book
Series Number
- B0740
Summary
- This volume was used very briefly by the Erie Canal Western Division Engineer's Office to record copies of outgoing reports and correspondence addressed to the State Canal Board or Canal Commissioner James Jackson, Jr. Acting Division Engineer B. M. Hawks authored the reports in response to requests from the Canal Board or Commissioner Jackson for information regarding various canal projects or existing canal structures.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Western Division Engineer's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor contractor's monthly estimates
Series Number
- B0230
Summary
- This series consists of "estimates of work done and material delivered," compiled monthly by contractors who had been awarded canal projects. Estimates provide name of contractor; date of contract; description of the canal project; authorizing statute(s); quantities of materials; description of items; contract and relative prices; and the total estimate figures.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Weekly reports of engineers regarding the Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0231
Summary
- These reports submitted to the State Engineer and Surveyor by division and senior assistant engineers document weekly progress on construction projects in progress or begun in 1921. The reports detail work done in offices and bureaus; surveying, mapping, and planning; canal maintenance and repairs; unusual events such as accidents or sinkings; and the disposition of applications for grants of land under water.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.