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Displaying 246 Finding Aids
Title
- Incoming correspondence
Series Number
- A1144
Summary
- This series from the Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department consists of correspondence of the Canal Auditor relating to financial matters such as salaries, contracts and tolls.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Agreements for commutation of passenger tolls on freight boats carrying passengers
Series Number
- A1178
Summary
- Proprietors of freight boats carrying passengers established agreements on fees to be paid for each boat they operated upon the canals. Each agreement provides name of provider; name of boat line; registered name and hailing place for each boat in the line; proprietor signature; and date.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Canal Commissioners scrapbooks of newspaper articles relating to the canals
Series Number
- A0879
Summary
- Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings document the construction and completion of the Erie Canal system. The articles describe the canal itself and summarize progress on its construction. Many are announcements of dinners and celebrations honoring the canal's completion. There are also many articles on DeWitt Clinton, especially regarding his removal by the legislature from the board of Canal Commissioners.
Creator
- New York (State). Canal Commissioners
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Original maps of surveys for the Erie Canal
Series Number
- A0851
Summary
- These survey maps show the proposed route for the Erie Canal was made by James Geddes in 1817. The area mapped extends from "Tonewanta Creek" east to the outlet of Mud Creek in the "Great Cayuga Marsh" (Montezuma). The maps show proposed line of the canal; roads; houses; mills; settlements; streams, ponds, and lakes; steep terrain; swamps and marshes; town and lot lines; and other features adjacent to the canal route.
Creator
- New York (State). Canal Commissioners
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Forms and instructions in relation to accounts of collectors of tolls
Series Number
- A1436
Summary
- This volume contains sample forms and instructions for use by collectors of tolls on the canal system and cites relevant statutes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor Barge Canal terminal final accounts
Series Number
- B0364
Summary
- This series consists of blank final account forms for the construction of Barge Canal terminals.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Trial balance book for the Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0370
Summary
- This series consists of a trial balance book used to monitor accounts related to the Barge Canal.
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 canal contract registers
Series Number
- B0358
Summary
- This series consists of forms related to contracts for construction and repairs on 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
- New York State Superintendent of Public Works Assistant Superintendent's Office photographs of culverts on the Western Division of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B1021
Summary
- This is a series of photographs, circa 1900, of culverts, places where water passes below the Canal, on the Western Division of the Erie Canal.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works. Assistant Superintendent's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Legal documentation relating to lands conveyed to Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Series Number
- A1388
Summary
- This series consists of deeds, mortgages, bonds, assignments and traced maps of lots in Buffalo. The land was conveyed to the Commissioners of the Canal Fund as collateral for two judgments against Thadeus W. Patchin, bankrupt, in 1874. In 1881 the Commissioners of the Canal Fund empowered the State Treasurer to settle or cancel back taxes on the Buffalo lots, and this series also contains taxes searches and related documents from this action.
Creator
- New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Negative photographs of State institutions, Barge Canal locations and structures, and highways
Series Number
- B0223
Summary
- These negative photographs were taken for use in settling Court of Claims litigation such as State contracts for the construction of highways, buildings, and other structures; appropriation of land and water; employee negligence; damages due to defects in the State's highway system. The negatives are filed in jackets with the Court of Claims number, negative number, name of facility, institution or location, direction of view, by whom taken, date, and pertinent remarks written on each jacket.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Public Works. Division of Engineering
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Department of Public Works index to Barge Canal releases
Series Number
- B0357
Summary
- This single volume series is an alphabetical index to releases, or agreements in which private individuals or businesses relinquished the right to file claims against the State of New York for property damage associated with surveying or constructing the Barge Canal. Each entry in the volume lists release number, name of person or company that granted release to the State, town and county where property was located, and date release was filed.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Annual statistical reports of cargoes cleared at various canal ports
Series Number
- A1175
Summary
- These tables submitted by canal toll collectors provided quantity (feet, pounds, barrels, etc.) of freight passing up or down the canal. Commodities included: lumber, timber, shingles, lime, beer, oats, wool, iron, brick, cheese, butter, flour, ashes, wheat, salt, and "sundries." Reports are fragmentary but cover Albany, Troy, Whitehall, Utica, and Rochester for 1830, and for 1832 for West Troy, Utica, Rochester, and Buffalo.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Engineer and Surveyor Barge Canal contract cross section sheets
Series Number
- B0394
Summary
- The volumes in this series contain cross section drawings relating to Barge Canal Western Division Contracts No. 6 and No. 202 in Monroe County, New York. Drawings are done in pencil and ink on 16 x 20 inch sheets of 10 x 10 grids-to-one inch cross section graphing paper.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- File on All American Canal and St. Lawrence Ship Canal and Power Project
Series Number
- B0746
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Canal Commissioners canal system survey maps
Series Number
- A0848
Summary
- These survey maps of the canal system in New York State fulfilled a law requiring a complete map and field notes of every canal in the state. The maps show: survey stations for measuring length of the canal; courses and distances (linked by red lines); canal right-of-way (blue line); locks; aqueducts; basins; other hydraulic structures; bridges; mill races; buildings; streams, ponds, and lakes; steep grades; and adjacent county, town, and property lines.
Creator
- New York (State). Canal Commissioners
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence and subject files pertaining to Barge Canal contracts and operations
Series Number
- B0382
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Documents relating to deposit of Canal Funds in banks
Series Number
- A1163
Summary
- Most of the documents are statements of deposit of Canal Fund monies in banks across the State. Generally they include date of statement, name bank, and amounts deposited on various dates. Interfiled with the statements are receipts, canceled checks, certificates of deposit, lists of canal toll deposits, and resolutions of bank board of directors for the deposit of funds.
Creator
- New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor contract proposals for the enlargement of the Erie and Champlain Canals
Series Number
- B0355
Summary
- Chapter 329 of the Laws of 1854 appropriated $2,250,000 in state funds to provide for the enlargement of the Erie, Oswego, Cayuga, and Seneca Canals; the completion of the Black River and Genesee Valley Canals; and the enlargement of the locks of the Champlain Canal. This series consists of one volume of abstracts of contract proposals pertaining to the enlargement of the Erie Canal and one volume pertaining to the enlargement of the locks of the Champlain Canal.
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 the Barge Canal
Series Number
- B0341
Summary
- This series consists of typewritten abstracts of expenditures made by the Superintendent of Public Works for the Western Division Engineer's Office. The abstracts outline expenditures for repairs, maintenance, and supervision of the New York State Canal System.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.