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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This series is an engineer's book containing mathematical formulas, geometric drawings, design specifications, and costing methods for canals and related engineering work..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Geological Survey

 

 

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This series consists of original drawings of graptolites and other fossils including phyllocarids, arthropods, eurypterids, machaeridia, Hyolithes, Protoscolex and Lingula. Rudolf Ruedemann, State Paleontologist, prepared the drawings, many of which subsequently appeared in State Museum and other scientific .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Committee on Geographic Names

 

 

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Records in this series include a master plan for documenting the Schermerhorn Row Block; a preliminary historic structures report; an archeological field report; architectural elevations and plans; copies of tax assessment lists; color slides; master architectural documentation notebooks; exterior field .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Canal Commissioners

 

 

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This series consists of a sheet of watercolor and ink drawings depicting the Watervliet Arsenal Bridge as proposed and as completed..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Museum of Natural History

 

 

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This series consists of original pencil illustrations for Volume V of the Natural History of New York: Paleontology, written by James Hall and published in 1874. The drawings are of fossil specimens of radiata, crinoidea, and corals..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of working copies of contract plans used by the Operations and Maintenance Division of the Department of Public Works and predecessor units. These "office copies" include attachments in the form of maps and plans detailing revisions and updates to original plans. Included are hydrologic .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Water Power Commission

 

 

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The American Super-Power Corporation submitted these exhibit maps and drawings to the Water Power Commission as part of a license application for a St. Lawrence River water power project. Action on this application was suspended in 1927 and superseded in 1930 by the creation of the St. Lawrence River .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

 

 

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This series includes blueprints showing the layout of exhibit cases of the Museum of Geology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the New York State Mining Exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915; plans of exhibit cases for the State Museum; space allocation in the State Education Building; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Geological Survey

 

 

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This series consists primarily of illustrations used in various New York State Museum publications on geological and paleontological subjects. Items include plates from State Museum Memoir 14 "Eurypterida," photographs of the reconstruction of the Cohoes Mastodon, cross sections of geological data from .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office

 

 

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This series consists of photographs; key plot plans; blueprints; articles on the school; and assorted records representing accumulated research on the history of the Syracuse State School compiled prior to the laying of the cornerstone of a "new" Syracuse State School in 1971. Included is information .........

 

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New York State Archives