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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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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). .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of a card file that indexes contracts, structures, and related appropriations for work on the Western Division of the Barge Canal. The file is arranged into eastern and western parts of the Western Division. Eastern section cards relate to many different contracts (numbers appear .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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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; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works

 

 

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This series consists of drawings, blueprints, plans, diagrams, tracings, and maps relating primarily to the state's canal system. Virtually all the state's canals are represented, but the series is particularly strong with respect to the Barge Canal system. Also included is a map of the Genesee Valley .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series indexes maps once maintained by the Region 2 Waterways Maintenance Office of the Department of Public Works. Maps and plans indexed included the first Erie Canal enlargement, the 1895 Improvement and the Erie Barge Canal, the Black River Canal, the Chenango Canal, the Northern and Southern .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series indexes field books held in the Canal Corporation Region 2 Office in Syracuse, New York. Field books referenced in the index document the construction and maintenance of the Chenango Canal, Black River Canal, the Northern and Southern Reservoirs and Oneida Lake portions of the Barge Cana.........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives