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Title

New York State Canal Corporation traffic agent's files

Series Number

B1797

Summary

This series consists of traffic-related reports, forms, and records maintained by Canal traffic agents. These reports provide documentation of day-to-day traffic on the canals. Records include origin and destination reports; tonnage reports; trip clearances; and other traffic related forms.

Creator

• New York State Canal Corporation

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Title

Daily administrative lock reports

Series Number

A4410

Summary

This series consists of daily reports on the operation of locks on the Erie and Champlain Barge Canals. These reports document day-to-day traffic on the canal as well as specific information on the lock. Records consist primarily of daily lockage reports; weekly operation work force logs; records of rainfall and snowfall; river and climatological observations; phone logs; station logs; and status logs.

Creator

• New York State Canal Corporation

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Title

Card index to Barge Canal correspondence and field books

Series Number

A4421

Summary

The series consists of card files apparently indexing material (primarily correspondence and field books) relating to construction of the Barge Canal (contract numbers 42, 43, 50, 51, and 55, the majority of which seem to pertain to Oneida County). Headings pertain to canal surveys, structures, reports, excavations, estimates, claims, materials, and appropriations. These cards typically give date of correspondence, initials from/to, "sub-subject" of letter, and a classification number (part of which may refer to a pertinent contract number).

Creator

• New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works

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Title

Administrative reports of Barge Canal Lock No. 22

Series Number

B1729

Summary

This series consists of daily and weekly reports and logs documenting the operation of Barge Canal Lock No.22 (Sylvan Beach). Daily reports contain detailed information on the number of daily lockages including time, direction of lockage, name or number of tugboat, and registration number. Weekly reports summarize the number of lockages, number of freight and pleasure crafts, and water elevations. Station logs include daily temperatures and generator usage while the daily logs note events that occurred at the lock.

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Title

Records relating to diverse parts of the state's canal system

Series Number

A4431

Summary

This series consists of materials produced from work done on the state's canal system including the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, the Auburn Extension, and the Erie, Oswego, and Champlain Canals. Records include information for contracts relating to maintenance of terminals; blueprints of land to be appropriated for canal use in Cayuga County (Montezuma); daily journal of work on the Auburn Extension Survey; field books of data (Cayuga County); draft survey descriptions on assessed property values; and weekly observations of river heights.

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Title

Card file index to Erie Canal construction and improvements

Series Number

A4425

Summary

This series consists of an incomplete card file that apparently indexes Erie Canal surveys, construction, and/or claims for damage. It may be part may be an index to Middle Division field books (found in series B0730, Engineer's Field Books Pertaining to the Construction of the State's Canal System). Many references are to the period of the second canal enlargement (so-called "9 Million Improvement") in 1896. There are also references to canal feeders and ancillary canals associated with the canal enlargement of 1835-1841.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Title

Superintendent and lock operator's records for Sections 1 and 2 of the Barge Canal

Series Number

B1878

Summary

These series documents activities carried out during the operation and maintenance of the canal. The record consist primarily of lock operator's weekly reports and includes construction and maintenance contract files, inventories, work reports, work schedules and reports, floating plant reports, gage charts and reports, subject files, and correspondence.

Creator

• New York State Canal Corporation

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Title

Correspondence files

Series Number

B0227

Summary

This series, arranged chronologically, documents the Special Deputy State Engineer's role in the early construction of the Barge Canal. The files consist of correspondence, magazine articles; diagrams, sketches, drawings, and blueprints; costs and "shop bills" of construction materials from private firms. Specific topics include construction methods and materials used; structural test results; damage claims; disposition of surplus water and excavation waste; proposed locations of the Barge Canal; water elevation, costs of electrical power, and contract violations.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Office of Special Deputy State Engineer

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Title

Administrative card file indexes

Series Number

A4417

Summary

This series consists of a card file index divided into two complete alphabetical sections (A-Z) that are apparently part of an unidentified main index or cross reference file from the Barge Canal period. The file appears to refer to subject files kept by the Department of Public Works. Subjects include canals; construction and maintenance projects; personnel; meetings; monitoring data; civil service matters; boundaries and blue lines; canal structures of all kinds; contracts; companies; and names of (presumed) correspondents.

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Title

Hydrologic data and summaries

Series Number

A4429

Summary

This series consists of discharge data, tables of water levels, survey reports, and other hydrologic data gathered by the Superintendent (later Department) of Public Works to plan for canal improvements and related flood control. During the 1920s responsibility for flood and water control was vested in that office (later the Department of Environmental Conservation assumed the responsibility). This material may also contain the raw data, and a draft copy of an annual or special report.

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Title

Administrative correspondence and background history on the Oak Orchard Feeder

Series Number

A4414

Summary

This series consists of correspondence requesting information about the Oak Orchard Feeder at Medina. Most letters are to offices of the Western Division engineer, who had responsibility for its administration and maintenance. Subjects include location of contracts, deeds, and other records; power and ownership rights along Oak Orchard Creek; easements; possible improvements including hydraulic development of streams entering into or issuing from the canal. Also included is a history of the "Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Creek Feeder and Tonawanda Swamp".

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Title

Partial index to Western Division field books, monthly estimates, structures, and other documents

Series Number

A4424

Summary

This series consists of a card file, apparently incomplete, that indexes Barge Canal contract work and related documents. Almost all cards have a contract number at the top, along with an unidentified number at the left corner, which may be a field book or other type of document number.

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Title

Card file index to field books of Erie Canal construction and enlargement

Series Number

A4430

Summary

This series consists of a card file indexing field books of Erie Canal construction and enlargements. Cards show date; type or location of work; and a reference to the book number(s) and its location. There are headings in the index for the following: canal enlargements and repairs; lengthening of locks; second canal enlargement; court of claims surveys; canal improvement; monthly estimates; and work on specific structures such as aqueducts, bridges, locks, walls.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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