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Displaying 30 Finding Aids
Title
- Works Progress Administration sponsored surveys and studies
Series Number
- A4179
Summary
- This series consists of surveys and apparently unpublished studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York. Examples include police arrest survey; social and economic survey of Indian reservations; real property survey (several cities); report on Albany transients and homeless; professional and service projects; 1850 census index for Buffalo; and Erie County street names.
Creator
- United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Supporting documentation for 1901 report on Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
Series Number
- B2544
Summary
- These series consists of survey data from a 1901 report on the Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes by Edward Bond, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and a color map of the proposed alternatives of Cohoes and vicinity to accompany the report. The map was compiled from the surveys of the U.S. Board of Engineers on Deep Waterways, from canal surveys, and a local map of the city of Troy.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Newark Developmental Center facilities management files
Series Number
- B2628
Summary
- This series documents construction, development, and improvements to the grounds, buildings, and infrastructure of the center's facilities. Record types include survey books of campus buildings, grounds, and streets; contracts; remodeling documentation; specifications; and equipment, parts, and material purchased.
Creator
- Newark Developmental Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Survey data on lands relating to state facilities
Series Number
- B1525
Summary
- This series consists of maps, plans, deeds, correspondence, field notes, survey data, descriptions of lands, statements of water power, and other related working notes apparently created to analyze the condition and ownership of lands related to state facilities. Facilities include the Schuyler Mansion; Auburn Prison; Delhi Agriculture School; State Camp at Peekskill; John Boyd Thatcher Park; Port Jefferson Harbor; and Ogdensburg State Hospital.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Hardenbergh Patent map and field notes
Series Number
- B2789
Summary
- This series consists of one photocopy of a tracing of a survey map and field notes made by surveyor Ebenezer Worster (or Wooster) in 1749. Map shows boundaries and names of land owners, lot numbers, and rivers. Field notes record survey delineations. The tracing was made by or for the State Conservation Department in 1919 from an original map then in private hands.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of Lands and Forests
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this
- material.
Title
- Maps, profiles, and surveys of Erie and Hudson state roads
Series Number
- A0855
Summary
- These maps and profiles from the Surveyor General were produced for a report to the legislature suggesting the best route for a road never built. Field notes document surveys of a proposed route between Lake Erie and the Hudson River and include brief descriptions of the land at each survey point. Maps show sections between towns and villages. Information includes town names; waterways; roads; estate boundaries and owner's names and inns and taverns and names of their owners.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Legal documentation relating to quit rents
Series Number
- A1227
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of correspondence, certificates, affidavits, copies of maps of land grants, surveys of patents and a list of persons forced to quit their farms for failure to pay quit rents. Most records are certificates and affidavits attesting to the amount of taxes due on real estate, ownership of land patents and lots, and remissions from quit rent. Also included are surveys of land patents and maps depicting lots and patents subject to quit rents.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Field notes of state lots near Albany Basin
Series Number
- A4428
Summary
- This series contains a "description of a map and field notes" of a survey of lots owned by the state "in the vicinity of the Little Basin and Lock No. 1" in the city of Albany. Location of the survey map is unknown. Records include a description of lots 1 through 12 and statement signed by the surveyor general attesting that the job was done by Deputy Surveyor Alexander Campbell. The location of these records is unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Property survey maps for cession of jurisdiction of the Federal Correctional Facility at Otisville
Series Number
- A3325
Summary
- This series consists of maps sent to the Secretary of State to complete the application of the Attorney General of the U.S. for cession of jurisdiction to the U.S. from the State of New York of the Federal Correctional Facility at Otisville, New York. The maps represent a property survey showing two parcels covering Orange and Sullivan counties and land in the Town of Mt. Hope, Orange County. Included are full property descriptions showing easements, property lines, roadways, and other physical features.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Upland application files
Series Number
- 13633
Summary
- This series consists of upland application files documenting grant, easement, lease, permit, transfer of jurisdiction, and license transactions of state lands during the years 1799-1916 and 1954-2001. Other transactions documented in this series include state surplus real property; gold, silver, mineral, and fossil deposits on state lands; and leases and transfers of unappropriated lands to the federal government and cessions of jurisdiction to the United States. Documents relating to individual applications are either bundled or filed together in discrete folders.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.